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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Lala say the tree cannot have a star?
(a) Because she does not like stars.
(b) Because the star symbolizes the birth of the Messiah, and the family is Jewish.
(c) Because the tree is too tall for an ornament at the top.
(d) Because she would rather have an angel at the top.

3. In the story Reba tells about a former neighbor, who boarded a train to start her second year at college, and did what?
(a) Never came home.
(b) Had to be the train conductor.
(c) Began to work for the train company.
(d) Ran up and down the aisles of the train with her clothes off.

4. Adolph, reading the paper, tells Reba to hurry and do what?
(a) Make lunch.
(b) Get him a cup of coffee.
(c) Get ready.
(d) Look at the article he is reading.

5. What does Joe realize?
(a) He forgot to turn off the lights in his home.
(b) He likes Lala.
(c) It is late.
(d) Dessert had not been served yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Reba say that Lala came home from Michigan?

2. To what does this statement lead?

3. What does Lala eagerly observe about Joe?

4. On a train stopping over in Baltimore, what is Reba's daughter, Sunny, doing?

5. What does this man invite Sunny to do?

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