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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 & 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Yolanda's Momma find in Andrew's pocket?
(a) A bag of marijuana.
(b) A bag of cocaine.
(c) A gun.
(d) A note from the drug dealer who shot the principal.

3. What does Yolanda miss about her former home?
(a) The public library which was a block away.
(b) The sights, sounds and tastes.
(c) Her very best friend.
(d) The better schools.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Yolanda need to talk to someone?

2. Who is Stoney Buxton?

3. What does Yolanda do a lot of in the classroom?

4. What is in an illustration that gives Andrew no motivation?

5. What does Shirley mean when she tells Yolanda that it takes one to know one?

(see the answer key)

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