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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Whose feelings were mutual?
(a) The boys' mother's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(b) Eddie's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(c) Louie's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(d) The boys' feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.

8. What has the war done for Eddie?
(a) Killed his wife.
(b) Caused him to lose his job.
(c) It has provided a relatively high-paying job in scrap iron that would never have existed before.
(d) It has paralyzed him from being thrown from his vehicle.

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

10. What is Jay contemplating.
(a) The idea of searching for the jewelry.
(b) The idea of searching for the money.
(c) The idea of searching for the dead body.
(d) The idea of searching for the weapon.

11. How could finding this help Bella?
(a) It would be an answer to her prayers.
(b) She could protect herself with it.
(c) It would help her solve the dead man's mystery.
(d) It would look pretty on her.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Eddie's wife?

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

3. For whom are the two men looking?

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

5. What does Bella do all the time?

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