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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where has Eddie's sales route taken him?
(a) Canada.
(b) Into the southern states.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Mexico.

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

3. Describe Bella.
(a) Angry and mean.
(b) Sad and nervous.
(c) Mentally and emotionally challenged.
(d) Bright and a know-it-all.

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

5. For what is Eddie being treated?
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) A cut.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Headaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the boys feeling about their new environment?

2. By what is Grandma Kurnitz driven?

3. Why does Grandma Kurnitz especially see no point in doing this?

4. Whose feelings were mutual?

5. How is this scene similar to Act I, Scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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