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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the scene open?
(a) With Bella welcoming the boys to her home.
(b) With the boys talking about their father.
(c) With Jay reading his father's letter.
(d) With the voice-over of Eddie's letter.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose feelings were mutual?

2. What has Eddie taken?

3. Why are the boys strangers to this place?

4. Whose living room is it?

5. What has happened to Eddie's wife?

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