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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must Eddie do?
(a) Find his father.
(b) Find a place to live with his sons.
(c) Travel for several months.
(d) Locate his wife.

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

3. What news does Eddie's doctor give?
(a) He has cancer.
(b) He only has a few days to live.
(c) He has an irregular heartbeat.
(d) He is as healthy as a horse.

4. Whose living room is it?
(a) Grandma Kurnitz's.
(b) Arty Kurnitz's.
(c) Eddie Kurnitz's.
(d) Great Uncle Louie Kurnitz's.

5. What do Johnny and Bella need for their plan to work?
(a) $5,000.
(b) Training.
(c) Clients.
(d) A location.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jay contemplating.

2. With what good news is Bella bursting?

3. Why does Bella stealthily enter the apartment?

4. How does Grandma Kurnitz feel?

5. What does the entry of a strange man into the apartment do to the boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Bella and Jay think about what is hiding in Grandma's house?

2. How does the scene open?

3. Why does Grandma react the way she does to Bella's behavior?

4. How does Louie feel about being at Grandma's home? About what is Bella adamant?

5. What do the boys come to understand about their father?

6. Why is Bella moving stealthily? What is the outcome?

7. How does the family find out about Johnny?

8. How does this scene begin?

9. How grateful is Eddie for what his mother has done for him?

10. Why is Bella in a good mood?

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