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

2. What will Eddie be doing?
(a) Borrowing more money.
(b) Selling scrap metal.
(c) Going to jail.
(d) Borrowing money from a loan shark.

3. What is the war to Eddie?
(a) Good news.
(b) Depressing.
(c) Bad news.
(d) Nothing new.

4. What has Eddie been forced to do?
(a) Get a job as a coal miner.
(b) Steal from his neighbors.
(c) End his wife's treatments.
(d) Borrow from a loan shark.

5. What is clear about Eddie?
(a) He is working himself to exhaustion.
(b) He is searching for his wife.
(c) He loves his job.
(d) He is leaving his children permanently.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eddie tell the boys?

2. What does it mean to be stealthy?

3. How does Grandma Kurnitz feel?

4. What is the setting of the play?

5. Why does Grandma Kurnitz reluctantly agree to Eddie's request?

(see the answer key)

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