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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Grandma chastise Bella?
(a) For stealing from them.
(b) For not getting a real job.
(c) For sneaking into the apartment.
(d) For wasting money on movies and movie magazines.

2. Whose feelings were mutual?
(a) The boys' feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(b) The boys' mother's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(c) Louie's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(d) Eddie's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.

3. Who are Arty and Jay?
(a) Cousins.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Brothers.

4. Why does it fascinate them?
(a) She is unlike anyone they have ever met.
(b) He is a smooth talker and carries a black satchel of money.
(c) They have never had a pet.
(d) He is funny, nice, and brings the boys candy.

5. What has Eddie taken?
(a) His sons to live with him.
(b) Grandma Kurnitz's secret stash of money.
(c) A job.
(d) Money from a bank.

6. What has happened to Eddie's wife?
(a) She has disappeared.
(b) She has died.
(c) She has become very ill.
(d) She has divorced him.

7. What must Eddie do?
(a) Locate his wife.
(b) Travel for several months.
(c) Find his father.
(d) Find a place to live with his sons.

8. What do Johnny and Bella need for their plan to work?
(a) Training.
(b) Clients.
(c) A location.
(d) $5,000.

9. Why does Grandma Kurnitz especially see no point in doing this?
(a) Eddie will not be coming home any time soon.
(b) Her life is a waste.
(c) Bella has a learning disability and is immature.
(d) The boys are educated enough.

10. How do the boys react when their father tells them that they will be spending the next 10 months with their Grandmother?
(a) The boys' discomfort escalates.
(b) They are excited.
(c) They are angry.
(d) They cry.

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

12. Why are these dreams unrealistic?
(a) Only wealthy people can have dreams like that.
(b) The people who have the dreams have no chance of attaining them.
(c) No one can attain these dreams.
(d) Boyfriends will get you nowhere.

13. Of what is the voice-over?
(a) Eddie's letter to Arty and Jay
(b) Arty and Jay's letter to their father.
(c) An announcement about refreshments offered during intermission.
(d) Grandma arguing with Bella.

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

15. From what had Eddie's wife suffered?
(a) Anemia.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Birth defects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louie give the boys for keeping silent if anyone should come looking for him?

2. To what has Grandma Kurnitz reluctantly agreed?

3. What would Jay do with it if he finds it?

4. Why does the doctor diagnose Eddie with this?

5. What is the war to Eddie?

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