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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After this small talk, what does Peachy ask Joe?
(a) Where he works.
(b) Whether this is his first time at the Standard Club.
(c) If he is a Jew.
(d) Whether he really likes Sunny.

2. Why are the Ballyhoo tickets free?
(a) Adolph paid for them.
(b) Adolph is a vice president of the country club where the dance is being held.
(c) Adolph won two free tickets.
(d) Adolph refuses to allow Joe to pay for the tickets.

3. What is Reba's response to the accident?
(a) Lala should be more kind to Joe.
(b) She will call the doctor.
(c) Sunny can find another dress to wear.
(d) The rip is easily fixable.

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

5. For whom is the Standard Club?
(a) Only non-Jews.
(b) Only German Jews.
(c) Only Eastern European Jews.
(d) Only American Jews.

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

7. For what are Peachy, dressed in a tux, and Joe, dressed in a plain dark suit, waiting?
(a) To go to a movie premier.
(b) Their dates to return from the store.
(c) Their dates for Ballyhoo to come downstairs.
(d) To attend a wedding.

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

9. What does Sunny do when she hears the conductor call out "All aboard?"
(a) She falls asleep.
(b) She panics.
(c) She tells Joe good bye.
(d) She cries.

10. For what does Sunny apologize?
(a) Taking him to Ballyhoo.
(b) Dancing with Peachy.
(c) Not telling him about the club.
(d) Becoming angry.

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

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

13. What is gone?
(a) The look of sadness in her mother's eyes.
(b) The Christmas tree.
(c) Her place at the school.
(d) The interest between Peachy and Lala.

14. Who rings the doorbell?
(a) Sylvan "Peachy" Weil.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) Joe.
(d) The police.

15. How do Lala and this guest greet each other?
(a) The hug each other.
(b) They say hello to each other in a mocking-teasing kind of way.
(c) They greet one another very shyly.
(d) The guest says hello, but Lala is too shocked to speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adolph say about the sweater?

2. What does Lala do as Adolph snoozes in his chair and Reba clears the dinner table?

3. To where do Lala and Sunny rush off?

4. What does Adolph say when Joe says goodnight and starts for his car?

5. What does Peachy do to Joe, unintentionally?

(see the answer keys)

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