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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Andrew scolded?
(a) Returning Yolanda's pencils unsharpened.
(b) Sleeping in class.
(c) Leaving his harmonica out during a lesson.
(d) Not cleaning his flute properly.

2. 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 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 it takes a reject at school to understand another reject.

3. What is one group that hangs out at Asphalt Hill?
(a) Bookies.
(b) Parents.
(c) Drug pushers.
(d) Girls watching the boys.

4. What does Yolanda take Shirley through with painstaking detail?
(a) The way to make a poster presentation.
(b) The steps in the double-dutch form.
(c) The steps in making a cake.
(d) The steps in creating a rubric.

5. What does Yolanda do to the biggest bully at school?
(a) Asks him for a chess match.
(b) Wrestles him to the ground.
(c) Ruins his food.
(d) Slaps him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the cake when Yolanda arrives back home?

2. What does Andrew tell Yolanda finally concerning his harmonica?

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

4. Why is Andrew uninterested in the photograph?

5. What other sound does Andrew like to hear on Asphalt Hill?

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