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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she tell him about her family?

2. What does Adolph look at Joe and wonder?

3. What does Reba think the consequences are of higher education?

4. About what does Lala complain as she is leaving?

5. In the story Reba tells about a former neighbor, who boarded a train to start her second year at college, and did what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lala decide she cannot go to the dance?

2. How does Lala respond to her mother's question about Sylvan and Ballyhoo?

3. What does Joe say about the Y?

4. How does the family react to Peachy's arrival?

5. How does Sunny surprise Reba at the end of the scene? How does Reba feel about this?

6. About what do Joe and Sunny talk, regarding her family's religious beliefs?

7. From where do Lala and Boo return? What does Lala have with her?

8. How does Lala's dress get torn?

9. What had Sunny's professor said about religion?

10. When does Sunny talk about Joe? What does she say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a serious confrontation between Joe and Sunny towards the end of the first act.

Part 1) Describe this confrontation. Why does it take place?

Part 2) How do the aspects that they first found attractive about one another now cause tension?

Part 3) How does the love triangle play into all of this tension and hostility? What is the connection between this hostility and the theme?

Essay Topic 2

There is a central theme in this play.

Part 1) What is this theme? How do you know this is a central theme?

Part 2) How do these characters change throughout the play based on this theme? What do they each discover?

Part 3) What is the author's purpose for the reader or audience, according to the theme? What is the reader or audience member supposed to learn?

Essay Topic 3

The family's country club is restricted.

Part 1) What are its restrictions? Why might it have these restrictions?

Part 2) What is ironic about this? What does it foreshadow?

Part 3) How does this restriction reflect what is taking place in American society, as well as in Europe, as mentioned by Adolph?

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