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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lala complain that instead of fighting about Christmas trees, they should all be doing?
(a) Celebrating because Clark Gable and other movie stars are in town for the world premiere of Gone with the Wind just a few blocks away.
(b) Getting ready for Christmas dinner.
(c) Decorating the tree together.
(d) Preparing a meal for the first day of Chanuka.

2. Over what do Boo and Reba argue?
(a) How the tradition of Ballyhoo got started.
(b) Where Ballyhoo will be this year.
(c) How much tickets cost.
(d) Whether or not they would allow their daughters to go.

3. What is Lala Levy doing as she decorates a Christmas tree while her aunt Reba watches and knits?
(a) Listening to the radio.
(b) Singing Christmas carols.
(c) Humming to herself.
(d) Singing Jewish songs.

4. About what do Sunny and Adolph chat?
(a) Adolph's job.
(b) The way they used to play cards when Sunny was little.
(c) The weather.
(d) Joe.

5. What does Sunny say about reading her book?
(a) Reading communist writing does not make a person into one.
(b) Train rides are good for reading Shakespeare.
(c) She too loves Jane Austen.
(d) She would like to be a model for Vogue, someday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is she reading?

2. How does Lala respond when Boo says that Lala has to take her place in society?

3. In the story Reba tells about a former neighbor, who boarded a train to start her second year at college, and did what?

4. Where is Louisa, their cook, going to work?

5. What will Joe Farkas, a young man from New York, be taking over?

(see the answer key)

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