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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yolanda tell Shirley to test?
(a) The cake to see if it is done.
(b) Anyone who comes to the door and wants in.
(c) The softness of the couch.
(d) Yolanda's vocabulary size.

2. What is failing to hold Andrew's interest?
(a) His friend's toy soldiers.
(b) His mother's recitation of his father's traits.
(c) Learning to read English.
(d) Learning to read music.

3. What cheers Yolanda's spirits?
(a) Andrew is safe and plays them a song on his harmonica.
(b) The cake tastes great.
(c) Andrew eats a big piece of the cake and seems better.
(d) Shirley is still impressed with Yolanda's genius.

4. What does Andrew tell Yolanda finally concerning his harmonica?
(a) That is was going bad.
(b) That drug pushers broke it.
(c) That he dropped it and it broke and he was so angry, he broke it the rest of the way.
(d) That he has decided to take up guitar.

5. How old was Andrew when he received his first harmonica?
(a) About 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) A baby.

6. About what does Andrew dream?
(a) Hitting Chimp over and over.
(b) Giving his second-best harmonica away.
(c) Burying his harmonica.
(d) Get revenge against Romulus Foster.

7. What does Shirley hope Yolanda will teach her?
(a) How to talk the librarian into letting her check out more than three books.
(b) How to study for an exam.
(c) How to increase Shirley's vocabularly.
(d) How to do double-dutch.

8. What does Yolanda suddenly remember when Shirley mentions Andrew?
(a) She and Andrew have to stay with their father the next weekend.
(b) She has a present for Andrew.
(c) She wants to save a piece of the cake for Andrew.
(d) She forgot to pick up Andrew at the park.

9. How does Andrew seem when Yolanda reaches him at the park?
(a) Excited.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Deeply upset.

10. What does Romulus ask of Andrew?
(a) To play some notes on the harmonica.
(b) To give him Andrew's second-best harmonica.
(c) To get closer to the rink so the skaters can hear him better.
(d) What Andrew would get for his mother's birthday.

11. How does Yolanda's mother's pestering figure into Yolanda getting to do something she likes to do?
(a) She'll clean her room for company and then bake a cake for her friend.
(b) She'll use the excuse of making friends to bake a cake for her friend.
(c) She'll offer to learn how to make a dinner meal if she can bake a cake for the dessert.
(d) She'll stop reading if she can bake a cake.

12. What did Andrew not know about what was in his pocket?
(a) The substance is illegal.
(b) The money is stolen.
(c) The beatle is still alive.
(d) It is cocaine.

13. Who is Vic Watts?
(a) Yolanda's math teacher.
(b) Andrew's music teacher.
(c) A black man called in to try to teach Andrew to read.
(d) Yolanda's English teacher.

14. Why is Yolanda shouting at Andrew in the morning?
(a) She is angry at him for leaving the house in the middle of the night.
(b) She is mad that he messes up the bathroom.
(c) She wants him to get up.
(d) She has found his harmonica.

15. What does the Chimp do?
(a) Hits Vic Watts.
(b) Smashes Andrew's harmonica.
(c) Calls for the police.
(d) Intervenes for Andrew when some bullies are botherin him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Momma always do for her children before leaving for work?

2. What was Andrew told would help his Momma?

3. What does Andrew think he is supposed to do?

4. Who calls Yolanda this word?

5. What does Yolanda discover in the middle of the night?

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