Lost in Yonkers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Lost in Yonkers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bella do all the time?
(a) Talk.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Cook.
(d) Dream.

2. To whom is this character speaking?
(a) Grandma Kurnitz.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Arty and Jay.
(d) Bella.

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

4. What does Bella tell the boys that Grandma has hidden?
(a) A dead body.
(b) $10,000 or $15,000.
(c) Expensive jewelry.
(d) A weapon.

5. Why must Eddie keep working, even after hearing the doctor's diagnosis?
(a) He needs to pay back the loan shark.
(b) He enjoys his job.
(c) He loves to work.
(d) He does not feel as bad as the doctor makes his diagnosis sound.

6. What has Bella always wanted?
(a) Go to school.
(b) Be a teacher.
(c) To work at the movie theatre.
(d) To be married and have children.

7. What does Grandma Kurnitz see no point in doing?
(a) Calling Eddie.
(b) Endorsing her daughter's dreams.
(c) Getting out of bed.
(d) Sending the boys to school.

8. What is Bella and Johnny's plan?
(a) To move into Grandma Kurnitz's home.
(b) To have children right away.
(c) To go back to school together.
(d) To open a restaurant together.

9. What is taking place between Eddie and Grandma Kurnitz?
(a) A light-hearted discussion.
(b) An argument.
(c) An important conversation.
(d) A business agreement.

10. Why does he tell them not to worry?
(a) He believes he has control over her life.
(b) He and Eddie used to do the same thing when they were young.
(c) Eddie will be successful.
(d) Bella is a strong woman.

11. Describe Grandma's life.
(a) Hard.
(b) Boring.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Easy.

12. How are the boys feeling about their new environment?
(a) Unsure.
(b) They are settling in.
(c) Worried.
(d) Annoyed.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Jay do with it if he finds it?

2. How must Bella feel about movies?

3. How does the scene open?

4. What makes Bella seem like a child?

5. Why are the boys strangers to this place?

(see the answer keys)

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