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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 & 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shirley mean when she tells Yolanda that it takes one to know one?
(a) That it takes a reject at school to understand another reject.
(b) That because Shirley's mother is also ill, she understands Yolanda's pain.
(c) That since Yolanda is a genius, she would naturally recognize another genius.
(d) That because Shirley's father is also dead, she understands Yolanda's grief.

2. What does Yolanda realize when she reads the word definition?
(a) She is actually quite grown-up and infantile does not describe her.
(b) She is intelligent, but not exceptional.
(c) She is not the true genius in the family.
(d) The word is an insult to others but not her.

3. What is Yolanda's mother always pestering her to do?
(a) Stop reading so much.
(b) Learn to cook.
(c) Clean her room.
(d) Make friends.

4. What is Yolanda yelling to Shirley as Yolanda rushes out of the house?
(a) Directions to baking the cake.
(b) To lock the door when she leaves.
(c) To call the police.
(d) To call Yolanda's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Romulus ask of Andrew?

2. How does Yolanda feel in her new home?

3. How old is Andrew?

4. Who scolds Andrew?

5. Why is Yolanda upset about what Stoney Buxton tells her?

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