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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does some of Peachy and Joe's small talk include?
(a) Where the girls have gone.
(b) What to get for dinner.
(c) Why they do not like each other.
(d) Why girls always go to the bathroom together.

2. How does Peachy respond when Joe asks whether Sunny knew this?
(a) No, she does not know much about the club.
(b) No, she does not know this.
(c) He tells him that Adolph used to be a past president of the Standard Club.
(d) Yes, but she thinks Joe is a German Jew.

3. What does Reba tell him he can do with the sweater?
(a) Give it to Joe.
(b) Take it to the thrift shop if he does not like it.
(c) Burn it.
(d) Put it in the closet.

4. What does Boo come downstairs and do?
(a) Start dinner.
(b) Begin to cry.
(c) Call for Adolph.
(d) Announces that the girls are ready.

5. What does the family do as the lights fade to black?
(a) They look at the Christmas tree.
(b) The begin to eat.
(c) They exchange the Sabbath Blessing.
(d) They sing Christmas carols.

6. What happens after Joe leaves, and Sunny stands center stage and thinks?
(a) The lights come up on her mother.
(b) The lights come up on her school.
(c) The lights come up on her home.
(d) The lights come up on Peachy and Lala.

7. What does Sunny not know?
(a) How Jewish she really is.
(b) How to be a Jew.
(c) What being Jewish is and means.
(d) Joe likes her.

8. What does Lala do when Boo tells her to go upstairs, work on her novel, and pack up the dress to be returned?
(a) She begins to cry.
(b) She puts on her wrap and goes.
(c) She sits on the couch.
(d) She follows her instructions.

9. What does he call the Christmas tree?
(a) A Chanukah bush.
(b) Pretty.
(c) Strange.
(d) A Chanukah tree.

10. What does Peachy think is a lot better than the Progressive Club?
(a) The clubs in New York City.
(b) The Standard Club.
(c) The Regressive Club.
(d) This restaurant.

11. How does Adolph react when Lala asks him to dance with her?
(a) He is eager to dance with her.
(b) He says he does not dance.
(c) He refuses to dance with her.
(d) He reluctantly agrees to dance with her.

12. What do Reba and Boo do when this guest arrives?
(a) They introduce themselves.
(b) They leave the room.
(c) They give him a hug.
(d) They give him the watermelon pickles.

13. Why does Peachy not seem to care about what is going on in Europe?
(a) He is not of European descent.
(b) He does not like Europe.
(c) His family is too busy to care about what is happening in Europe.
(d) His family has been in Louisiana for a hundred and fifty years.

14. What does Sunny do when she says she does know a bit of Yiddish?
(a) She misquotes a prayer.
(b) She misquotes a verse from Proverbs.
(c) She misquotes the Sabbath Blessing.
(d) She misquotes a Psalm.

15. What does Sunny say does not matter to her?
(a) That he is not a Jew.
(b) That her family members are not practicing Jews.
(c) That "other kind" of stuff.
(d) That her family is from Eastern Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where is this train headed?

2. How does Joe seem after Peachy's comment about the club?

3. Who does this guest lie and say he is taking to the dance?

4. Who rings the doorbell?

5. After this small talk, what does Peachy ask Joe?

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