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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 Boo do when Reba asks some embarrassing questions?

2. What does Sunny tell Reba that she is actually going to?

3. How does Joe respond to this information?

4. Why does Reba say that Lala came home from Michigan?

5. Where does he believe Sunny will not be going?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Adolph reminds Boo about Sunny's father?

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

4. What has happened to Louisa?

5. What exciting thing has happened to Lala?

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

7. What do Sunny and Adolph do as they play cards?

8. How does this scene open?

9. How do Peachy and Joe react to their dates' appearance?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The tearing of Lala's dress is symbolic.

Part 1) How does Lala's dress get torn? What is symbolic about this?

Part 2) What is the connection between this symbolism and the theme?

Part 3) What is ironic about the meaning behind the tearing of the dress and the relationship between Joe and Sunny?

Essay Topic 2

The most important thing to Boo throughout the play is being socially acceptable.

Part 1) How do you know this is important to her? Why is it so?

Part 2) How does this need for acceptance affect decisions she makes?

Part 3) What does this desire for social acceptance reveal about her?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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