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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 & 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Aunt Tiny say about Yolanda's piano playing?
(a) She thinks Yolanda needs to practice more.
(b) She thinks Yolanda has great talent.
(c) She thinks Yolanda is awful.
(d) Not impressed.

4. What does Yolanda tell Shirley?
(a) That Yolanda has been told by her doctor she is not allowed to jump rope.
(b) That being friends is a waste of time.
(c) That Yolanda lied about being able to double-dutch.
(d) That Shirley needs to bring two other people with her to turn the rope.

5. What does Yolanda realize when she reads the word definition?
(a) The word is an insult to others but not her.
(b) She is not the true genius in the family.
(c) She is intelligent, but not exceptional.
(d) She is actually quite grown-up and infantile does not describe her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yolanda tell Shirley to test?

2. What is failing to hold Andrew's interest?

3. How does Yolanda expect her mother to react to the haircut in front of the kids?

4. Who does Yolanda decide is the only person who can help Andrew?

5. What horrifies Yolanda about the way Aunt Tiny cuts Yolanda's mother's hair?

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