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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Willie Meredith?
(a) A student who is shot dead.
(b) The principal who is dead.
(c) The janitor who is dead.
(d) The janitor who brings the gun to school.

2. What other sound does Andrew like to hear on Asphalt Hill?
(a) The cries of the boys who take a hill too daringly.
(b) The bulldozers moving the trash around.
(c) The cry of frogs who live in the stagnant water inside the tires.
(d) The Doberman pincher barking at intruders.

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

4. How does Andrew seem when Yolanda reaches him at the park?
(a) Deeply upset.
(b) Happy.
(c) Excited.
(d) Sad.

5. What does Andrew continue to do after school?
(a) Work for the local music store to earn another harmonica.
(b) Go to his music lessons.
(c) Play harmonica for the skaters.
(d) Go home because he has no friends.

6. Who is Stoney Buxton?
(a) A skater who says he does better when Andrew is playing his harmonica.
(b) A boy who is learning to play the flute.
(c) A boy who is learning harmonica also.
(d) A drug dealer in the neighborhood.

7. What has Miss Gilluly given up trying to do?
(a) Get a promotion.
(b) Teach Andrew to read.
(c) Stop Yolanda from raising her hand in class so much.
(d) Getting her students to want to learn.

8. How does Yolanda's mother's pestering figure into Yolanda getting to do something she likes to do?
(a) She'll stop reading if she can bake a cake.
(b) She'll offer to learn how to make a dinner meal if she can bake a cake for the dessert.
(c) She'll use the excuse of making friends to bake a cake for her friend.
(d) She'll clean her room for company and then bake a cake for her friend.

9. Why does Yolanda look up the word?
(a) To have a smart rejoinder for the boy the next day.
(b) To compliment her mother with something nice.
(c) To have a comment to Andrew.
(d) To figure out if she really is one.

10. Who is Shirley Piper?
(a) Yolanda's next-door neighbor.
(b) A girl who saves a seat on the bus for Yolanda.
(c) Yolanda's favorite teacher.
(d) The principal at Yolanda's new school.

11. 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 creating a rubric.
(d) The steps in making a cake.

12. What did Andrew not know about what was in his pocket?
(a) It is cocaine.
(b) The beatle is still alive.
(c) The substance is illegal.
(d) The money is stolen.

13. What is in an illustration that gives Andrew no motivation?
(a) A dog swimming with a white boy.
(b) A white girl walking with a parasol.
(c) Washington crossing the Delaware.
(d) The depiction of two white kids.

14. What cheers Yolanda's spirits?
(a) Shirley is still impressed with Yolanda's genius.
(b) Andrew eats a big piece of the cake and seems better.
(c) Andrew is safe and plays them a song on his harmonica.
(d) The cake tastes great.

15. What has Andrew be nicknamed by some of the boys that hang out at Asphalt Hill?
(a) The Mouth.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The Pied Piper.
(d) Soft shoe Andro.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Yolanda's mother always pestering her to do?

3. What does Yolanda decide to bake?

4. What does Yolanda offer to teach Shirley?

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

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