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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Eddie tell the boys?
(a) He calls them on the phone.
(b) He comes home to tell them.
(c) In his letter to them.
(d) He writes a letter to his mother.

4. Why are their feelings short-lived?
(a) The man introduces himself as their Uncle Louie.
(b) It is their father.
(c) It is just Grandma.
(d) The man leaves quickly.

5. How do the boys feel about the intruder?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Excited.

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

7. Who are Arty and Jay?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Cousins.

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

9. What has Eddie taken?
(a) A job.
(b) His sons to live with him.
(c) Money from a bank.
(d) Grandma Kurnitz's secret stash of money.

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

11. Why are these dreams unrealistic?
(a) No one can attain these dreams.
(b) Boyfriends will get you nowhere.
(c) The people who have the dreams have no chance of attaining them.
(d) Only wealthy people can have dreams like that.

12. What would Jay do with it if he finds it?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Send it to Eddie.
(c) Tell his Uncle Louie.
(d) Sell it.

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

14. 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.

15. Why will Eddie be doing this?
(a) He needs to borrow more money.
(b) He has broken the law.
(c) It is the quickest legal way to earn the money.
(d) He trusts the loan shark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to be stealthy?

2. What does the entry of a strange man into the apartment do to the boys?

3. After what is Jay scrambling upstairs?

4. What has happened to Eddie's wife?

5. How could finding this help Bella?

(see the answer keys)

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