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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the boys strangers to this place?
(a) Grandma Kurnitz never liked the boys' mother.
(b) Grandma Kurnitz has recently moved.
(c) Grandma Kurnitz is not their real grandmother.
(d) They have been living out of the country since birth.

2. Why does Grandma Kurnitz reluctantly agree to Eddie's request?
(a) She loves her grandsons.
(b) She wants to help out her son.
(c) Bella threatens to leave the house and the store.
(d) The boys have nowhere else to go.

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

4. What is the setting of the play?
(a) 1842, Yonkers, Pennsylvania.
(b) 1842, Yonkers, New York.
(c) 1942 Yonkers, New York.
(d) 1942, Yonkers, Pennsylvania.

5. What is Bella the only one who seems to understand?
(a) What Louie is doing with his life.
(b) How to save money.
(c) Where to find Eddie.
(d) How to love the two boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Bella.

2. Into where is Bella eager to invite Arty and Jay?

3. For whom are the two men looking?

4. Where is it hidden?

5. Why is Bella able to understand this?

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