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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is included with the letter from Eddie?
(a) Food.
(b) Toys for the boys.
(c) Some money for food and medicine for the boys.
(d) Photographs.

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

3. What is made even more intriguing for the boys?
(a) Their fascination with Louie.
(b) Their fascination with Bella.
(c) Their fascination with their pet rat.
(d) Their fascination with Grandma Kurnitz.

4. Why does Grandma have no need for the money from Louie?
(a) The money would be more useful when given to someone else.
(b) She knows he is poor.
(c) It was not earned honestly.
(d) She is very wealthy.

5. How does Grandma Kurnitz react to what Bella divulges?
(a) She is sad.
(b) She is not surprised.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She is horrified.

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

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

8. Who has enlisted in the armed forces?
(a) Uncle Louie.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Gert.
(d) Eddie.

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

10. With what is Arty sick?
(a) A fever.
(b) Allergies.
(c) Chicken pox.
(d) Pneumonia.

11. How does Louie feel about this new restriction on his evening plans?
(a) He is slightly annoyed.
(b) He is pleasantly surprised.
(c) He is uncomfortable with it.
(d) He does not like it.

12. What does Jay reveal to Arty?
(a) He is going to ask Louie if he can go with him tonight.
(b) He worries about their father.
(c) He does not like Uncle Louie.
(d) He thinks Arty should go with Uncle Louie.

13. What happens as soon as Grandma leaves the room?
(a) Louie enters.
(b) Jay pulls Arty up to their room.
(c) Arty laughs at her.
(d) Bella calls for the boys.

14. For whom is the basketball?
(a) Arty.
(b) Jay.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Louie.

15. What is Grandma Kurnitz doing at the end of the scene?
(a) She is contemplating her life.
(b) She is smiling.
(c) She is crying.
(d) She watches Bella go and shakes her head in bemused acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Eddie, while the boys wait for him?

2. How has Johnny's mind changed?

3. What are the boys doing?

4. What does Bella begin to do at the end of the scene?

5. Where has Bella been staying?

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