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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the boys strangers to this place?
(a) Grandma Kurnitz has recently moved.
(b) Grandma Kurnitz never liked the boys' mother.
(c) Grandma Kurnitz is not their real grandmother.
(d) They have been living out of the country since birth.

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

3. Why are these dreams unrealistic?
(a) Boyfriends will get you nowhere.
(b) No one can attain these dreams.
(c) The people who have the dreams have no chance of attaining them.
(d) Only wealthy people can have dreams like that.

4. Whose feelings were mutual?
(a) Eddie's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(b) The boys' mother's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(c) The boys' feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.
(d) Louie's feelings for Grandma Kurnitz.

5. Where do Grandma and her daughter, Bella, work?
(a) Kurnitz's Kandy Store.
(b) Kurnitz's Kiddy Store.
(c) Jacopo's Diner.
(d) Mendelssohn's Violin Shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Eddie keep working, even after hearing the doctor's diagnosis?

2. Why does Grandma Kurnitz reluctantly agree to Eddie's request?

3. How does Grandma Kurnitz feel?

4. What is the setting of the play?

5. What does Grandma do, regarding Bella?

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