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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jay's plan?
(a) To save money to buy a new game.
(b) To run away to New York City.
(c) To get out into the real world and make some money to send to Eddie.
(d) To tell Uncle Louie how he truly feels about him.

2. Why is Grandma verbally battling with Arty?
(a) Arty enjoys complaining to Grandma.
(b) They do not agree over what to have for dinner.
(c) She loves to argue.
(d) To force Arty to drink the horrible mustard soup.

3. Who will be happier than Bella and her siblings?
(a) The neighbors.
(b) Jay and Arty.
(c) Anyone else.
(d) Bella's children.

4. What reason does Louie give the boys for why he is leaving town?
(a) It is too dangerous for him to stay.
(b) He cannot stand Grandma.
(c) He cares too much for the boys.
(d) His business is finished.

5. Why does Grandma Kurnitz tell Louie that he is required to stay for dinner?
(a) At Bella's request.
(b) She enjoys being in control.
(c) She made a large amount of food.
(d) She does not want him to leave.

6. How has Johnny's mind changed?
(a) He wants to move to another city.
(b) He does not want to open a restaurant.
(c) He prefers to stay at home with his parents and not marry.
(d) He does not want children.

7. What are the boys doing?
(a) Clearing dinner dishes and setting up chairs.
(b) Doing schoolwork.
(c) Talking to their father on the phone.
(d) Playing.

8. What does Louie share with the boys?
(a) A letter from their father.
(b) His dinner.
(c) A piece of chocolate.
(d) He will be leaving tonight.

9. Why must Jay help Bella convey her news?
(a) She fumbles.
(b) She leaves the room.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She cannot speak.

10. To where does Bella disappear at the end of the scene?
(a) The porch.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) Her room.

11. What feelings does Bella admit she has?
(a) She is feeling hurt by her mother's words.
(b) She is feeling happy about marrying Johnny.
(c) She has the feelings of a woman .
(d) She has the feelings of a teenager.

12. What does Bella bring up?
(a) Her mother's lack of intimacy.
(b) The two children who died.
(c) The lack of a father figure in Jay and Arty's lives.
(d) Louie's trouble with the men in the car.

13. What does Louis tell the boys?
(a) He needs a job.
(b) He is looking for the men in the black Studebaker.
(c) He wants them to come with him.
(d) He does not want any interaction with Grandma Kurnitz.

14. Who is the bravest of all Grandma Kurnitz's children?
(a) Bella.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Gert.
(d) Louie.

15. What does she insist upon being?
(a) A career woman.
(b) A girlfriend.
(c) A wife and mother.
(d) An independent woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Louie feel about this new restriction on his evening plans?

2. About what are Arty and Jay concerned?

3. For whom is the football?

4. Why is Bella glad that the boys are still there?

5. What does Bella say she was seeking?

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