Lost in Yonkers Short Question Test Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Act 1, Scene 1

1. What is the setting of the play?

1942 Yonkers, New York.

2. Whose living room is it?

Grandma Kurnitz's.

3. What is below the apartment?

Kurnitz's Kandy Store.

4. Where do Grandma and her daughter, Bella, work?

Kurnitz's Kandy Store.

5. How does the scene open?

Two boys, Arty and Jay, sit uncomfortably on the couch waiting for their Father, Eddie, to emerge from Grandma's bedroom.

6. What is taking place between Eddie and Grandma Kurnitz?

An important conversation.

7. Why are the boys strangers to this place?

Grandma Kurnitz never liked the boys' mother.

8. Whose feelings were mutual?

The boys' mother's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.

9. How do the boys react when their father tells them that they will be spending the next 10 months with their Grandmother?

The boys' discomfort escalates.

10. What has happened to Eddie's wife?

She has...
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