View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Andrew feel connected to the sounds in the house?
(a) Because he has a cold and his ears are plugged.
(b) Because of not having his harmonica.
(c) He is asleep.
(d) Because there is a stranger making noise in the house with his sister.

3. Why is Andrew uninterested in the photograph?
(a) Andrew thinks the parasol is silly.
(b) Andrew is afraid of dogs.
(c) Andew does not care what happened several hundred years ago.
(d) The children in the photo do not resemble Andrew.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yolanda yelling to Shirley as Yolanda rushes out of the house?

2. What has Miss Gilluly given up trying to do?

3. What does Andrew think he is supposed to do?

4. How does Yolanda's mother's pestering figure into Yolanda getting to do something she likes to do?

5. Of what does Yolanda try to convince herself as she runs to the park?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 383 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample