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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does this scene take place?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) In a park.
(c) In the family's home.
(d) At the dance.

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

4. Why does Boo rush around making sure the house is clean and tidy?
(a) For Joe.
(b) For Sylvan.
(c) For the family.
(d) For Louisa.

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

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 home.
(c) The lights come up on Peachy and Lala.
(d) The lights come up on her school.

7. Why can the guest not have nuts?
(a) He is fatally allergic.
(b) He cannot bite down on them.
(c) He is mildly allergic.
(d) He hates them.

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

9. Why does Lala protest that she cannot go?
(a) She is nervous to see Sally.
(b) She doe not like Dorothy.
(c) She will be humiliated if Dorothy sees her.
(d) She is afraid Peachy's mother will be there.

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

11. After a few moments, why does Lala come in and shout for her mother?
(a) She is tired of hearing Joe and Sunny argue.
(b) Peachy has asked her to marry him.
(c) Peachy had left her at the dance.
(d) She has torn her dress.

12. 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.

13. What does Peachy say that he might be interested in doing?
(a) Going to Hollywood.
(b) Moving back to Europe.
(c) Getting married within the month.
(d) Coming to work for Adolph.

14. What is Adolph's response to Joe's thoughts about Boo not liking him?
(a) Boo is mean.
(b) Boo does not really like anybody.
(c) Boo likes everyone.
(d) Boo does not like Joe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Adolph refer to Lala as "Scarlett O'Goldberg?"

2. To what does Joe compare his experience that night?

3. What is Sunny doing on the train?

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

5. What happens to Peachy and Joe when the girls do this?

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