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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Andrew not want to do drugs?

2. Why does Yolanda look up the word?

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

4. What do they call Yolanda on the bus?

5. What does Vic ask Andrew to play on Andrew's harmonica?

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