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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Andrew be nicknamed by some of the boys that hang out at Asphalt Hill?
(a) The Pied Piper.
(b) Soft shoe Andro.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The Mouth.

2. What do they call Yolanda on the bus?
(a) Skinny Mini.
(b) Hick.
(c) Nothing; they won't speak to her.
(d) Whale.

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

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

5. Who is Shirley Piper?
(a) Yolanda's next-door neighbor.
(b) A girl who saves a seat on the bus for Yolanda.
(c) Yolanda's favorite teacher.
(d) The principal at Yolanda's new school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Andrew when Chapter 3 opens?

2. Where does Yolanda's mother decide to move her family?

3. How old was Andrew when he received his first harmonica?

4. What is one group that hangs out at Asphalt Hill?

5. What does Yolanda offer to teach Shirley?

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