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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louie divulge to the boys?
(a) He found Grandma's treasure.
(b) How Grandma Kurnitz shut down emotionally when two of her children died.
(c) He wants to take them with him when he leaves.
(d) He is on the run from the law.

2. With what has Eddie been challenged?
(a) Understanding the southern accents.
(b) Understanding how to sell scrap metal.
(c) Understanding the foreign currency.
(d) Understanding Spanish.

3. Who is speaking at the beginning of the scene?
(a) Arty.
(b) Bella.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Jay.

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

5. From what had Eddie's wife suffered?
(a) Birth defects.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Anemia.
(d) Cancer.

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

7. At first, what does Louie tell the boys?
(a) He is moving in with them.
(b) He is married.
(c) The gun is not his.
(d) He is going to find Eddie.

8. For whom are the two men looking?
(a) The boys' Uncle Louie.
(b) Grandma.
(c) Bella.
(d) Eddie.

9. Who is Johnny?
(a) The boy who mows the grass.
(b) Grandma's boyfriend.
(c) The usher from the theater.
(d) The boy next door.

10. Where is it hidden?
(a) In the car.
(b) In her back pocket.
(c) In a bank.
(d) In the apartment.

11. What news does Eddie's doctor give?
(a) He is as healthy as a horse.
(b) He has cancer.
(c) He has an irregular heartbeat.
(d) He only has a few days to live.

12. What does Louie do for Arty and Jay?
(a) He calls their dad for them.
(b) Puts them on his payroll.
(c) He takes them with him.
(d) He gives them a treat.

13. How have Eddie and the boys been left?
(a) Speechless.
(b) Deeply in debt.
(c) With a large amount of money from their mother's will.
(d) In need of another mother.

14. How does the scene open?
(a) With Bella welcoming the boys to her home.
(b) With Jay reading his father's letter.
(c) With the voice-over of Eddie's letter.
(d) With the boys talking about their father.

15. What fascinates the boys?
(a) Their new pet rat.
(b) Grandma's personality.
(c) Uncle Louie's demeanor.
(d) Bella's boyfriend Johnny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Eddie's sales route taken him?

2. When are the boys even more mesmerized?

3. How do the boys react when their father tells them that they will be spending the next 10 months with their Grandmother?

4. Who are Arty and Jay?

5. Describe Bella.

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