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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does this man invite Sunny to do?
(a) Visit him in New York City.
(b) Go to Ballyhoo.
(c) Join him for dinner.
(d) Give him her number.

2. To whom was young Reba similar?
(a) Boo.
(b) Lala.
(c) Louisa.
(d) Sunny.

3. When Adolph can see that Joe and Sunny want to spend time alone, what does he suggest?
(a) They have coffee and cake.
(b) They go to bed.
(c) They all leave them alone.
(d) They all go for a walk.

4. About what does Reba tell Sunny she is glad?
(a) Sunny is going shopping with Lala.
(b) Sunny is going to go to Ballyhoo.
(c) Sunny is going to college and studying.
(d) Sunny is going to spend the evening with her.

5. About what does Lala complain as she is leaving?
(a) She will not have time to finish decorating the tree.
(b) Only her mother could ruin both Christmas and Gone with the Wind in the same night.
(c) She wishes her mother would go to the premier with her.
(d) Only her mother understands her.

6. 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) Preparing a meal for the first day of Chanuka.
(d) Decorating the tree together.

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

8. What does Adolph say about Hitler going into Poland?
(a) He is a crazy man.
(b) The Americans will get him.
(c) He will not take over Poland.
(d) It does not look good.

9. What does Lala tell Joe to do?
(a) Watch television.
(b) Go with her to Ballyhoo.
(c) Sing Christmas carols.
(d) Come up with the name of the central family in her novel.

10. Where does he believe Sunny will not be going?
(a) To the Shakespeare festival.
(b) To Ballyhoo.
(c) Home for the holidays.
(d) Back to college.

11. 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 he is taking her to the dance on the last night.
(c) Whether Sylvan will propose.
(d) Whether Sylvan likes her.

12. After some small talk about how Joe got his job with Adolph, what does Joe ask?
(a) Whether Sunny and her family really are Jewish.
(b) If her family practices their faith.
(c) Where is Sunny's family is from.
(d) If Sunny will go to Ballyhoo with him.

13. What does she tell him about her family?
(a) They are very strange, since they are not practicing Jews.
(b) They love to have company come to visit.
(c) It is the only Jewish family on a socially mobile, very Protestant street.
(d) It is one of many Jewish families on the block.

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

15. What does Adolph remind Boo about Sunny's father?
(a) He is not welcome in the house.
(b) He has left Sunny and Reba.
(c) He worked his fingers to the bone not only to provide the necessities of life for his family, but also to provide extras.
(d) Adolph is her father, so he is allowed to favor her over Lala.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lala do when she comes down the stairs?

3. When there is a knock at the door, and Boo thinks it is the police, who is it?

4. How does Joe respond to this information?

5. Why does Reba toast Joe?

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