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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) The principal who is dead.
(b) The janitor who is dead.
(c) A student who is shot dead.
(d) The janitor who brings the gun to school.

2. How does Yolanda feel in her new home?
(a) Sad.
(b) Scared.
(c) Excited.
(d) Hopeless.

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

4. Who is Romulus Foster?
(a) The leader of the drug pushers.
(b) One of the skaters who likes Andrew's playing.
(c) A friend of Andrew's mother.
(d) One of Andrew's classmates.

5. Who was at the playground when Andrew was there?
(a) A swat team.
(b) The principal just before he was shot.
(c) Some pushers.
(d) A couple ponies kids could ride.

6. How old was Andrew when he received his first harmonica?
(a) 10.
(b) About 8.
(c) 4.
(d) A baby.

7. Why is Yolanda suspicious of Shirley?
(a) She thinks Shirley might make fun of Yolanda behind her back.
(b) Yolanda is not suspicious of Shirley.
(c) She thinks Shirley is less popular than Yolanda so Shirley sits with her not to be alone.
(d) She thinks Shirley might want something in return for Shirley's kindness.

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

9. What do they call Yolanda on the bus?
(a) Whale.
(b) Hick.
(c) Skinny Mini.
(d) Nothing; they won't speak to her.

10. Why would Andrew not want to do drugs?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) He's afraid of going to jail.
(c) He's afraid of his mother finding out.
(d) He has seen what drugs do to others.

11. How is the cake when Yolanda arrives back home?
(a) Flat.
(b) Burnt to a crisp.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Not quite done.

12. Where is Andrew when Chapter 3 opens?
(a) On the park playground.
(b) At home sleeping.
(c) In his class at school.
(d) At home playing his harmonica.

13. What is Asphalt Hill?
(a) A pile of tires about one hundred feet high.
(b) The dump behind Yolanda's home.
(c) The scrapeyard.
(d) Where skaters practice.

14. What is different about Vic Watts?
(a) He is deaf.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He has a bad stutter.
(d) He is in a wheelchair.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yolanda make the rest of the kids feel?

2. How many terrible things have happened recently in Yolanda's life?

3. Who scolds Andrew?

4. For what is Andrew scolded?

5. What does Yolanda's mother hope Andrew some day becomes?

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