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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. What does Grandma Kurnitz think of Bella's news?
(a) It is a good idea.
(b) It is a mature decision.
(c) It is not surprising.
(d) It is foolishness.

2. What kind of life does Bella want?
(a) One where she can love somebody and know that that love will be returned.
(b) One where she is not near her mother.
(c) One where there are lots of children.
(d) One where she has all the power and money.

3. At first, what does Louie tell the boys?
(a) He is going to find Eddie.
(b) He is moving in with them.
(c) The gun is not his.
(d) He is married.

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

5. What has Eddie been forced to do?
(a) Steal from his neighbors.
(b) Borrow from a loan shark.
(c) Get a job as a coal miner.
(d) End his wife's treatments.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Louie compared to Eddie?

2. According to Grandma, what do nothing but create unrealistic dreams?

3. What fascinates the boys?

4. Why does he change his mind?

5. What is included with the letter from Eddie?

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