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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does this man do?
(a) He tells her to move over.
(b) He introduces himself.
(c) He sits next to her, silently.
(d) He glares at her.

3. What does Boo ask Adolph to pay attention to, rather than what's going on halfway across the world?
(a) What is going on in his own home.
(b) What is gong on in Atlanta.
(c) What is going on in Georgia.
(d) What is going on in the United States.

4. Where is Louisa, their cook, going to work?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) In a school.
(c) In a nursing home.
(d) At the Arkwright's across the street.

5. Why was Adolph unable to fit DeWald in?
(a) He did not like DeWald.
(b) DeWald was not intelligent enough.
(c) It never worked out.
(d) DeWald was not trustworthy.

6. What does Reba do when Lala says she is holding out hopes for another boy named Ferdy Nachman?
(a) Reba asks who this boy is.
(b) Reba warns her off him.
(c) Boo warns her off him.
(d) Reba encourages her to hold out.

7. Boo says it is not enough to know that Sylvan is taking Lala to Ballyhoo. What does she need to know?
(a) Whether Lala likes him.
(b) Whether Sylvan likes her.
(c) Whether Sylvan will propose.
(d) Whether he is taking her to the dance on the last night.

8. Where does the man say he has to go?
(a) To work.
(b) To bed.
(c) Home.
(d) To dinner.

9. Why does Sunny go up?
(a) To take a nap.
(b) To air out her dress.
(c) To get her purse.
(d) To get more books to study.

10. How had Reba felt when she was young about Ballyhoo?
(a) Nervous about going.
(b) Silly aout going.
(c) Worried about going.
(d) Not interested in going.

11. How are Sunny and Joe left alone?
(a) Lala goes out to make coffee; Boo and Adolph go up to bed.
(b) Lala goes to visit Sylvan; Boo and Adolph go to make coffee.
(c) The family goes to the kitchen.
(d) The family goes for a walk.

12. What does Adolph tell Sunny after Reba is gone?
(a) He hopes she is enjoying college.
(b) He hopes she goes to Ballyhoo and meets someone special.
(c) He found university brochures hidden on Sunny's father's desk when she was six years old, and comments on how proud he would be of her.
(d) He has deposited money in her account for college.

13. What will Joe Farkas, a young man from New York, be taking over?
(a) Some of the traveling at work.
(b) Adolph's company.
(c) The Atlanta branch of the company.
(d) His place as head of the household.

14. What is Sunny's major?
(a) Fashion.
(b) English.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Sociology.

15. Where do Lala and her mother go to get ready?
(a) Downstairs.
(b) In Boo's bedroom.
(c) Upstairs.
(d) In the bathroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Adolph say is coming to dinner?

2. As Reba runs upstairs to put on a dress, what does Boo ask Adolph?

3. How might Louisa have felt when Boo asked her if she knew anything about some money missing off Adolph's bureau?

4. How does Reba describe the girl?

5. What does Louisa say when Boo asks her why she changed jobs?

(see the answer keys)

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