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Quiz about Dreams in the Golden Country by Kathryn Lasky

"Dreams in the Golden Country" by Kathryn Lasky Quiz

This quiz is all about "Dreams in the Golden Country" by Kathryn Lasky. Hope you do well!

A multiple-choice quiz by padme11. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
padme11

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
135,518

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
184

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Why was Zippy sitting on the wooden suitcase, and not the wicker one? Hint

The wicker one was broken.

Tovah was sitting on it.

Miriam was sitting on it.

Mama said she was too heavy to rest on the wicker one.

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the name of their boarder?

Answer: (one or two words)

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is Blu's REAL name? Hint

Maria

Bluma

Blue

Blossom

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Question 4 of 10

4. In her entry dated September 17, 1903 she said she wouldn't be able to write for a while. Why does she say that? Hint

Her mother doesn't let her write every other week.

She is very sick and the doctor said not to write.

She is going on vacation.

She said tomorrow is Shabbos and then the High Holy days.

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Question 5 of 10

5. On which street is Reb Simcha's synagogue? Hint

Main Street

Norfolk Street

Hollywood Blvd.

Church Street

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Question 6 of 10

6. What language does Zippy mostly write in, in the beginning of the diary? Hint

Yiddish

Russian

German

French

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Question 7 of 10

7. What did mama name her baby boy?

Answer: (One word - not his English name)

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Question 8 of 10

8. What is the name of the transportation service Zippy uses to see Miriam? Hint

taxi

train

bus

the elevated

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Question 9 of 10

9. What is the name of the first Hollywood movie Zippy ever made? Hint

Kitty Foyle

Jesus Christ Superstar

Shulamith

A Treacherous Woman

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Question 10 of 10

10. What year did Zippy write this diary? Hint

1904

1903

1952

1899

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Why was Zippy sitting on the wooden suitcase, and not the wicker one?

Answer: Mama said she was too heavy to rest on the wicker one.

In her first entry she talks about that.

2. What is the name of their boarder?

Answer: Reb

Reb Simcha is a religious scholar. Zippy thought he looked like a bag of chicken bones.

3. What is Blu's REAL name?

Answer: Bluma

Zippy says she is happy because another girl-Bluma- her age joins her class.

4. In her entry dated September 17, 1903 she said she wouldn't be able to write for a while. Why does she say that?

Answer: She said tomorrow is Shabbos and then the High Holy days.

On the Shabbos and High Holy Days Jews couldn't write, work clean etc.

5. On which street is Reb Simcha's synagogue?

Answer: Norfolk Street

You had to have paid attention to get that one!

6. What language does Zippy mostly write in, in the beginning of the diary?

Answer: Yiddish

She says it many times in the the book that Yiddish is the language she uses.

7. What did mama name her baby boy?

Answer: Yossel

Yossel in English is Joey or Joseph

8. What is the name of the transportation service Zippy uses to see Miriam?

Answer: the elevated

She wrote that she saved up to ride the Elevated.

9. What is the name of the first Hollywood movie Zippy ever made?

Answer: A Treacherous Woman

In the epilogue it tells you that.

10. What year did Zippy write this diary?

Answer: 1903

Every single entry tells you that. If you didn't get this question you didn't read the book!

Source: Author padme11

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