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

2. To what has Grandma Kurnitz reluctantly agreed?
(a) Allow Eddie to stay.
(b) To let the boys go.
(c) Make dinner for the family.
(d) Keep the boys.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Eddie's wife?

2. What has the war done for Eddie?

3. According to Grandma, what do nothing but create unrealistic dreams?

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

5. Whose living room is it?

(see the answer key)

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