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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adolph look at Joe and wonder?
(a) Why Lala is interested in this man.
(b) Why Joe is still here.
(c) Why Boo would think Joe would be interested in the Ballyhoo.
(d) Where Joe's family is located.

2. Why does Reba toast Joe?
(a) He is a good speaker.
(b) She is welcoming him to Atlanta.
(c) He is an attractive man.
(d) She always enjoys company.

3. What does Lala lift from the lobby of the movie theatre?
(a) A ticket to see "Gone with the Wind."
(b) A poster-sized picture of Scarlett O'Hara.
(c) An autographed ticket from the trash.
(d) A popcorn machine.

4. What happens before she has a chance to answer?
(a) The man leaves.
(b) Someone screams.
(c) The conductor calls "All Aboard!"
(d) The train stops abruptly.

5. Who is Sunny?
(a) Boo's other daughter and Lala's sister.
(b) Reba's neice who lives down the street.
(c) Adolph's daughter who is visiting from New York City.
(d) Reba's daughter who attends Wellesley College.

6. What does Lala tell Joe to do?
(a) Watch television.
(b) Come up with the name of the central family in her novel.
(c) Go with her to Ballyhoo.
(d) Sing Christmas carols.

7. About what do Sunny and Adolph chat?
(a) The way they used to play cards when Sunny was little.
(b) Joe.
(c) The weather.
(d) Adolph's job.

8. Why does Boo ask Adolph why he is going down to pick up Sunny at the train station?
(a) Sunny knows her way home perfectly well.
(b) Sunny can walk home.
(c) Whether or not she has a lot of luggage.
(d) She wants him to pick up some groceries instead.

9. Of what does this news about Sylvan convince everyone?
(a) He is not taking Lala to Ballyhoo.
(b) He already has a date to Ballyhoo.
(c) He will be asking Lala to Ballyhoo.
(d) He has already left to pick up his real date to Ballyhoo.

10. What does Boo suggest that Lala should have on her mind?
(a) Other things, such as her school work.
(b) Other things, such as what gifts she would like for Christmas.
(c) Other things, such as what she will sing in the Christmas pagent.
(d) Other things, such as who is going to take her to Ballyhoo in a couple of weeks.

11. Who is Sylvan?
(a) Lala's brother.
(b) The boy next door.
(c) The boy with whom Boo wants Lala to go to Ballyhoo.
(d) Sunny and Lala's cousin.

12. After some small talk about how Joe got his job with Adolph, what does Joe ask?
(a) Whether Sunny and her family really are Jewish.
(b) If her family practices their faith.
(c) If Sunny will go to Ballyhoo with him.
(d) Where is Sunny's family is from.

13. What does Boo do when Reba asks some embarrassing questions?
(a) She takes her off into the kitchen.
(b) She apologizes for Reba's rude behavior.
(c) She tells her to be quiet.
(d) She begins to laugh.

14. Why does Reba say that Lala came home from Michigan?
(a) She had flunked out.
(b) She did not have enough money.
(c) She had no friends.
(d) She was homesick.

15. What does this man invite Sunny to do?
(a) Give him her number.
(b) Visit him in New York City.
(c) Go to Ballyhoo.
(d) Join him for dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adolph do as Reba and Boo clear the table?

2. Who does Adolph say is coming to dinner?

3. How does Joe respond when Sunny says that having a Christmas tree does not mean they are not Jewish?

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

5. As Reba runs upstairs to put on a dress, what does Boo ask Adolph?

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