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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the boys react when their father tells them that they will be spending the next 10 months with their Grandmother?
(a) They cry.
(b) They are angry.
(c) The boys' discomfort escalates.
(d) They are excited.

3. What has the war done for Eddie?
(a) Killed his wife.
(b) Caused him to lose his job.
(c) It has paralyzed him from being thrown from his vehicle.
(d) It has provided a relatively high-paying job in scrap iron that would never have existed before.

4. Why must Grandma Kurnitz come upstairs to get Jay?
(a) He will not come down.
(b) He has not come down into the store to work.
(c) He is still sick.
(d) He fell down and cannot get up.

5. Into what have the boys settled by this time?
(a) Receiving letters from their father.
(b) School.
(c) Yonkers.
(d) The household.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Eddie be doing?

2. For what is the family gathering?

3. From where does Aunt Gert emerge?

4. What does Bella do all the time?

5. When are the boys even more mesmerized?

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