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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bella do all the time?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Talk.
(c) Cook.
(d) Dream.

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

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

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

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

7. What do the boys come to understand about their father?
(a) He will be staying with them.
(b) He is ready for a new wife.
(c) He is a dishonorable man.
(d) He is doing an honorable thing by taking this job.

8. What is Louie for the boys?
(a) A strange house guest.
(b) A best friend.
(c) A breath of fresh air.
(d) A nuisance.

9. For what is Eddie being treated?
(a) A cut.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Exhaustion.
(d) Headaches.

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

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

12. How must Bella feel about movies?
(a) Passionately.
(b) Fear.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Unsure.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are two strange men located?

2. What does Louie give the boys for keeping silent if anyone should come looking for him?

3. How must Bella feel as her mother chastises her?

4. How do the boys feel about the intruder?

5. What is clear about Eddie?

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