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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 Yolanda usually have when she answers a question in class?
(a) A big grin on her face.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A group of students who clap.
(d) An additional comment about her answer.

2. What word does Yolanda look up in the dictionary?
(a) Retard.
(b) Genius.
(c) Infantile.
(d) Intelligent.

3. What is Yolanda doing while Andrew is playing his harmonica near Asphalt Hill?
(a) Talking with Shirley.
(b) Going to the public library.
(c) Talking with one of the boys who is skating.
(d) Reading a book under the tree.

4. Who was shot by the person with the gun?
(a) The principal.
(b) The other janitor.
(c) Students and a teacher.
(d) No one.

5. 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 father is also dead, she understands Yolanda's grief.
(c) That because Shirley's mother is also ill, she understands Yolanda's pain.
(d) That since Yolanda is a genius, she would naturally recognize another genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls Yolanda this word?

2. How does Andrew wake up the family in the mornings?

3. Who is Stoney Buxton?

4. What does Yolanda realize when she reads the word definition?

5. What picture does Miss Gilluly give Andrew and ask him what it is?

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