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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yolanda think about all day?
(a) Why Shirley is cozening up to her.
(b) The kind of cake she will make.
(c) Whether she really wants Shirley as a friend.
(d) How to manipulate her mother.

2. What was Andrew told would help his Momma?
(a) Finding a husband.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) A vacation.
(d) For her children to behave better.

3. What does the Chimp do?
(a) Calls for the police.
(b) Hits Vic Watts.
(c) Smashes Andrew's harmonica.
(d) Intervenes for Andrew when some bullies are botherin him.

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

5. What does Yolanda tell Shirley to test?
(a) Yolanda's vocabulary size.
(b) Anyone who comes to the door and wants in.
(c) The softness of the couch.
(d) The cake to see if it is done.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Vic show Andrew?

4. What is Yolanda often called by the other students?

5. Where does Yolanda's family live at the opening of the novel?

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