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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do Johnny and Bella need for their plan to work?
(a) A location.
(b) $5,000.
(c) Clients.
(d) Training.

4. How must Bella feel as her mother chastises her?
(a) Angry and upset.
(b) Excited and anxious.
(c) Unsure and irritated.
(d) Bored and annoyed.

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

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

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

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

9. To what has Grandma Kurnitz reluctantly agreed?
(a) Allow Eddie to stay.
(b) To let the boys go.
(c) Make dinner for the family.
(d) Keep the boys.

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

11. What does the entry of a strange man into the apartment do to the boys?
(a) It awakens them.
(b) It excites them.
(c) It goes unnoticed.
(d) It does not frighten them.

12. Whose living room is it?
(a) Eddie Kurnitz's.
(b) Great Uncle Louie Kurnitz's.
(c) Grandma Kurnitz's.
(d) Arty Kurnitz's.

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

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

15. What exists between Grandma Kurnitz and Bella?
(a) Love.
(b) Understanding.
(c) A promise.
(d) A chasm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is taking place between Eddie and Grandma Kurnitz?

2. What is Bella the only one who seems to understand?

3. According to Grandma, what do nothing but create unrealistic dreams?

4. Describe Grandma's life.

5. What is there more of at this home than Arty and Jay could ever have imagined?

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