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

2. How must Bella feel about movies?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Passionately.
(c) Fear.
(d) Unsure.

3. What does Grandma do, regarding Bella?
(a) She hears her.
(b) She sleeps right through.
(c) She writes her a letter.
(d) She talks to her in the morning.

4. How does Eddie tell the boys?
(a) He calls them on the phone.
(b) He writes a letter to his mother.
(c) In his letter to them.
(d) He comes home to tell them.

5. How must Bella feel as her mother chastises her?
(a) Bored and annoyed.
(b) Angry and upset.
(c) Excited and anxious.
(d) Unsure and irritated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandma Kurnitz see no point in doing?

2. Of what is the voice-over?

3. Why must Eddie keep working, even after hearing the doctor's diagnosis?

4. What do the boys come to understand about their father?

5. Why are the boys strangers to this place?

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