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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what smell does Yolando wake?
(a) Her dog breathing in her face.
(b) Fish frying and waffles sizzling.
(c) Tar when the road is being repaired.
(d) Bacon frying and pancakes cooking.

2. What is Yolanda not allowed to do at home?
(a) Bake a cake.
(b) Interrupt Andrew's practice sessions.
(c) Watch television.
(d) Talk on the phone for more than five minutes.

3. What tension is there at Asphalt Hill?
(a) Between Andrew and the drug dealers.
(b) Between the skaters and the basketball players.
(c) Between the older boys and the younger boys.
(d) Between kids from different schools.

4. What does Shirley Piper wonder about Yolanda?
(a) Why Yolanda would want the teacher to call on her.
(b) Why Yolando does not report the students who harass Yolanda.
(c) If Yolanda studies for hours at night.
(d) If Yolanda is a genius.

5. Where does Yolanda's family live at the opening of the novel?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Ann Arbor.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Flint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stoney Buxton?

2. What do they call Yolanda on the bus?

3. What does Yolanda usually have when she answers a question in class?

4. What does Yolanda do to the biggest bully at school?

5. Why would Andrew not want to do drugs?

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