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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe realize?
(a) He forgot to turn off the lights in his home.
(b) Dessert had not been served yet.
(c) It is late.
(d) He likes Lala.

2. What does Joe do?
(a) He asks to use the restroom.
(b) He changes the subject.
(c) He leaves.
(d) He joins in the conversation of this topic.

3. How did she find the Passover supper?
(a) Scary.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Pleasant.
(d) Boring.

4. The next morning, what are Reba and Adolph doing when Boo comes in with the morning paper?
(a) Reba is listening to the radio and Adolph is cooking breakfast.
(b) Reba is knitting and Adolph is snoozing.
(c) Reba is cooking breakfast and Adolph is reading the newspaper.
(d) Reba is clearing away after breakfast and Adolph is doing some paperwork.

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

6. What does Boo ask Adolph to pay attention to, rather than what's going on halfway across the world?
(a) What is gong on in Atlanta.
(b) What is going on in Georgia.
(c) What is going on in his own home.
(d) What is going on in the United States.

7. What does Reba ask about Passover?
(a) Where Joe will be spending Passover.
(b) If it is anything like Chanuka.
(c) What it is.
(d) Whether those festivities are held in the spring.

8. What does Lala say when Boo asks her why she wants to go down to the theater?
(a) She would like to get a job as an usher at the theatre.
(b) She confesses that she is writing a book about the South that she's convinced is going to become a movie.
(c) She confesses she would like to be a movie director some day.
(d) She wants to the the new movie, "Gone with the Wind."

9. To whom was young Reba similar?
(a) Lala.
(b) Boo.
(c) Sunny.
(d) Louisa.

10. When Boo asks whether Sylvan asked her to Ballyhoo, how does Lala reply?
(a) No, he is taking his cousin.
(b) It did not come up and adds that she has hopes for someone else.
(c) Yes, so she needs to buy a new dress.
(d) No, he does not want to go with her.

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

12. What happened when Lala went to a Passover supper once?
(a) She did not know what to do.
(b) She spilled wine all over the tablecloth.
(c) She enjoyed it very much.
(d) She met many nice people.

13. Boo says it is not enough to know that Sylvan is taking Lala to Ballyhoo. What does she need to know?
(a) Whether Sylvan will propose.
(b) Whether Sylvan likes her.
(c) Whether Lala likes him.
(d) Whether he is taking her to the dance on the last night.

14. What does Adolph remind Boo about Sunny's father?
(a) He is not welcome in the house.
(b) He worked his fingers to the bone not only to provide the necessities of life for his family, but also to provide extras.
(c) He has left Sunny and Reba.
(d) Adolph is her father, so he is allowed to favor her over Lala.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lala complain that instead of fighting about Christmas trees, they should all be doing?

2. What does Boo ask him?

3. What does Boo tell Lala about Sylvan?

4. How does Joe respond to this information?

5. What does Reba do when Lala says she is holding out hopes for another boy named Ferdy Nachman?

(see the answer keys)

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