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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Grandma Kurnitz react to what Bella divulges?

2. What does she insist upon being?

3. Where is Uncle Louie?

4. How is the beginning of this scene the same as other scenes?

5. What has happened to those who cannot deal with Grandma Kurnitz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Arty and Jay do not want to stay with their grandmother.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) Why must they stay with their grandmother?

Part 3) How are they able to accept that they must stay with her?

Essay Topic 2

Two of Grandma Kurnitz's children died.

Part 1) How does she deal with their deaths?

Part 2) How does her behavior affect her surviving children?

Part 3) How does Grandma change throughout the play towards her living children?

Essay Topic 3

Bella has her fantasy world into which she escapes.

Part 1) What fantasies does she have in this play?

Part 2) How does she handle these fantasies when they do not become reality?

Part 3) How does her character become more independent? What feelings does the growth in this character evoke in the audience and readers?

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