Lost in Yonkers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Lost in Yonkers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does Bella arrive home?
(a) Work.
(b) Her friend's home.
(c) Another afternoon at the movies.
(d) School.

2. How does Grandma Kurnitz feel?
(a) World weary.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

3. What does it mean to be stealthy?
(a) Ignorant and lazy.
(b) Secret in action or character.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Strong and healthy.

4. What do the boys come to understand about their father?
(a) He will be staying with them.
(b) He is a dishonorable man.
(c) He is ready for a new wife.
(d) He is doing an honorable thing by taking this job.

5. Why does Bella stealthily enter the apartment?
(a) So as not to rouse Grandma.
(b) She is robbing the people living in the apartment.
(c) She is practicing being light on her feet.
(d) She does not want to wake the boys.

6. What is below the apartment?
(a) Kurnitz's Kiddy Store.
(b) Kurnitz's Kandy Store.
(c) Kurnitz's Kracker Jack Store.
(d) Kurnitz's Kool Store.

7. Why would Bella's good news be the perfect arrangement for her?
(a) She enjoys working with children.
(b) Johnny is also learning impaired.
(c) She loves movies.
(d) She loves to learn.

8. What is the setting of the play?
(a) 1942, Yonkers, Pennsylvania.
(b) 1842, Yonkers, Pennsylvania.
(c) 1942 Yonkers, New York.
(d) 1842, Yonkers, New York.

9. Describe Bella.
(a) Angry and mean.
(b) Sad and nervous.
(c) Mentally and emotionally challenged.
(d) Bright and a know-it-all.

10. What does Grandma do after chastising Bella?
(a) She tells her to break up with her boyfriend.
(b) She sends her to her room.
(c) She takes the magazines and retreats to the bedroom.
(d) She tells her to go see another movie.

11. Whose living room is it?
(a) Arty Kurnitz's.
(b) Grandma Kurnitz's.
(c) Great Uncle Louie Kurnitz's.
(d) Eddie Kurnitz's.

12. Why is Bella able to understand this?
(a) She loves Eddie.
(b) She has felt the lack of love throughout her entire life.
(c) She is good with money.
(d) She knows Louie better than Louie knows himself.

13. What does Grandma Kurnitz see no point in doing?
(a) Endorsing her daughter's dreams.
(b) Sending the boys to school.
(c) Calling Eddie.
(d) Getting out of bed.

14. Who is Johnny?
(a) The boy who mows the grass.
(b) The boy next door.
(c) The usher from the theater.
(d) Grandma's boyfriend.

15. What does Louie divulge to the boys?
(a) He found Grandma's treasure.
(b) How Grandma Kurnitz shut down emotionally when two of her children died.
(c) He is on the run from the law.
(d) He wants to take them with him when he leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandma do, regarding Bella?

2. Who are Arty and Jay?

3. What news does Eddie's doctor give?

4. About what does Louie tell the boys not to worry?

5. How have Eddie and the boys been left?

(see the answer keys)

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