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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is clear about Eddie?
(a) He is leaving his children permanently.
(b) He is working himself to exhaustion.
(c) He loves his job.
(d) He is searching for his wife.

5. Whose living room is it?
(a) Great Uncle Louie Kurnitz's.
(b) Eddie Kurnitz's.
(c) Grandma Kurnitz's.
(d) Arty Kurnitz's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are their feelings short-lived?

2. How do the boys react when their father tells them that they will be spending the next 10 months with their Grandmother?

3. Describe Bella.

4. Why would Bella's good news be the perfect arrangement for her?

5. What does it mean to be stealthy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will Eddie be doing to pay back the loan shark?

2. When do the boys' feelings escalate?

3. What has happened to Bella?

4. What role does Bella play in this scene?

5. Why is Bella happy the boys are still there?

6. What does Louie do to help both the boys and himself?

7. Why is Bella moving stealthily? What is the outcome?

8. How do Jay's feelings for his uncle grow?

9. Why is Jay scrambling upstairs?

10. How does Louis feel about being forced to stay longer at Grandma's house?

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