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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sunny do when she says she does know a bit of Yiddish?
(a) She misquotes a verse from Proverbs.
(b) She misquotes the Sabbath Blessing.
(c) She misquotes a prayer.
(d) She misquotes a Psalm.

3. What is Sunny doing on the train?
(a) Crying.
(b) Staring out of the window.
(c) Reading.
(d) Sleeping.

4. Why do Peachy's parents say it is okay?
(a) Lala's family is wealthy.
(b) They like Lala.
(c) The family goes all the way back on both sides.
(d) Lala is a German Jew.

5. What do Reba and Boo do when this guest arrives?
(a) They give him the watermelon pickles.
(b) They leave the room.
(c) They give him a hug.
(d) They introduce themselves.

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

7. What does some of Peachy and Joe's small talk include?
(a) What to get for dinner.
(b) Why girls always go to the bathroom together.
(c) Where the girls have gone.
(d) Why they do not like each other.

8. What does Peachy think is a lot better than the Progressive Club?
(a) The Regressive Club.
(b) The Standard Club.
(c) The clubs in New York City.
(d) This restaurant.

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

10. What does Boo explain to Adolph?
(a) Lala has to face her fears.
(b) She had to do what she did because she could not allow Lala to go to the dance with a boy like Peachy.
(c) She had to do what she did because she did not think Lala would get another chance.
(d) Lala needs to grow up and not worry about what others think.

11. Who brought Sunny home from the dance?
(a) Joe.
(b) Lala.
(c) Harold.
(d) Peachy.

12. What does Boo ask Peachy when he follows Lala in?
(a) Where he had gone.
(b) Why he proposed to her.
(c) Whether it is true.
(d) What he thinks he is doing.

13. What Christmas gift does Reba accept from Louisa?
(a) A fruit cake.
(b) Watermelon pickles.
(c) A basket of citrus fruit.
(d) Cookies.

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

15. Why are the Ballyhoo tickets free?
(a) Adolph paid for them.
(b) Adolph won two free tickets.
(c) Adolph is a vice president of the country club where the dance is being held.
(d) Adolph refuses to allow Joe to pay for the tickets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sunny say does not matter to her?

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

3. What does Sunny do when she joins her family?

4. Why does Peachy not seem to care about what is going on in Europe?

5. Why is Boo upset about the gift?

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