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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louie sense?
(a) The boys' fear.
(b) The boys' lack of trust.
(c) The boys' anger.
(d) The boys' need for some adventure.

2. What will Eddie be doing?
(a) Borrowing more money.
(b) Selling scrap metal.
(c) Going to jail.
(d) Borrowing money from a loan shark.

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

4. What does Grandma Kurnitz see no point in doing?
(a) Endorsing her daughter's dreams.
(b) Sending the boys to school.
(c) Getting out of bed.
(d) Calling Eddie.

5. To whom is this character speaking?
(a) Bella.
(b) Arty and Jay.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Grandma Kurnitz.

6. How is Louie compared to Eddie?
(a) Identical.
(b) Completely different.
(c) Exactly the same.
(d) Similar.

7. Why does Bella stealthily enter the apartment?
(a) She does not want to wake the boys.
(b) She is practicing being light on her feet.
(c) So as not to rouse Grandma.
(d) She is robbing the people living in the apartment.

8. What does Bella tell the boys that Grandma has hidden?
(a) Expensive jewelry.
(b) A weapon.
(c) $10,000 or $15,000.
(d) A dead body.

9. Why are their feelings short-lived?
(a) It is just Grandma.
(b) It is their father.
(c) The man leaves quickly.
(d) The man introduces himself as their Uncle Louie.

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

11. What does it mean to be stealthy?
(a) Secret in action or character.
(b) Ignorant and lazy.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Strong and healthy.

12. According to Grandma, what do nothing but create unrealistic dreams?
(a) Bachelor degrees.
(b) Boyfriends.
(c) Movies and movie magazines.
(d) Songs.

13. How does Grandma Kurnitz feel?
(a) Sad.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) World weary.
(d) Angry.

14. What does Bella do all the time?
(a) Talk.
(b) Cook.
(c) Dream.
(d) Sleep.

15. Into where is Bella eager to invite Arty and Jay?
(a) The movie theatre.
(b) Her business deal.
(c) A party.
(d) Her quirky life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandma do, regarding Bella?

2. Whose feelings were mutual?

3. What is there more of at this home than Arty and Jay could ever have imagined?

4. Who are Arty and Jay?

5. What happens because the boys are not sure of their uncle's occupation?

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