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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a new intrigue for the boys?
(a) School.
(b) A new kid on the block.
(c) A black Studebaker.
(d) Grandma's boyfriend.

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

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

4. What is below the apartment?
(a) Kurnitz's Kool Store.
(b) Kurnitz's Kandy Store.
(c) Kurnitz's Kracker Jack Store.
(d) Kurnitz's Kiddy Store.

5. Into where is Bella eager to invite Arty and Jay?
(a) Her business deal.
(b) A party.
(c) Her quirky life.
(d) The movie theatre.

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

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

8. How do the boys react when their father tells them that they will be spending the next 10 months with their Grandmother?
(a) They cry.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They are excited.
(d) The boys' discomfort escalates.

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

10. Of what is the voice-over?
(a) Eddie's letter to Arty and Jay
(b) An announcement about refreshments offered during intermission.
(c) Arty and Jay's letter to their father.
(d) Grandma arguing with Bella.

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

12. Why is Bella able to understand this?
(a) She loves Eddie.
(b) She is good with money.
(c) She knows Louie better than Louie knows himself.
(d) She has felt the lack of love throughout her entire life.

13. How is Louie compared to Eddie?
(a) Completely different.
(b) Similar.
(c) Exactly the same.
(d) Identical.

14. With what good news is Bella bursting?
(a) The good news that she intends to marry Johnny.
(b) She has a job at the movie theatre.
(c) She got into night school.
(d) She is moving.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Grandma and her daughter, Bella, work?

2. What is the setting of the play?

3. Why does Bella stealthily enter the apartment?

4. Why must Eddie keep working, even after hearing the doctor's diagnosis?

5. What fascinates the boys?

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