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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bella enjoy doing?
(a) Talking to her boyfriend.
(b) Going to see movies.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

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

3. What are the boys trying to do?
(a) Eat dinner.
(b) Play a game.
(c) Go to sleep.
(d) Sneak out the window.

4. According to Grandma, what do nothing but create unrealistic dreams?
(a) Movies and movie magazines.
(b) Bachelor degrees.
(c) Boyfriends.
(d) Songs.

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

6. What does Louie sense?
(a) The boys' lack of trust.
(b) The boys' need for some adventure.
(c) The boys' fear.
(d) The boys' anger.

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

8. Why does Grandma Kurnitz especially see no point in doing this?
(a) Bella has a learning disability and is immature.
(b) Her life is a waste.
(c) Eddie will not be coming home any time soon.
(d) The boys are educated enough.

9. What does it mean to be stealthy?
(a) Ignorant and lazy.
(b) Secret in action or character.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Strong and healthy.

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

11. What does Louie eventually reveal?
(a) He is taking them with him.
(b) His wife is also moving in.
(c) The truth.
(d) He is going to join Eddie.

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

13. Why does Bella stealthily enter the apartment?
(a) She is practicing being light on her feet.
(b) So as not to rouse Grandma.
(c) She is robbing the people living in the apartment.
(d) She does not want to wake the boys.

14. Where are two strange men located?
(a) By the school.
(b) Around the block.
(c) In the backyard.
(d) Inside the black Studebaker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When are the boys even more mesmerized?

2. How does Grandma Kurnitz feel?

3. What is Jay contemplating.

4. What does Louie divulge to the boys?

5. To what has Grandma Kurnitz reluctantly agreed?

(see the answer keys)

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