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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many terrible things have happened recently in Yolanda's life?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 0.

3. Who came into the school with a gun?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A janitor.
(c) A drug dealer.
(d) A student.

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

5. How often had Shirley checked on the cake?
(a) She forgot to check on it altogether.
(b) Every minute.
(c) Every half hour.
(d) Every five minutes.

6. What does Yolanda miss about her former home?
(a) Her very best friend.
(b) The better schools.
(c) The public library which was a block away.
(d) The sights, sounds and tastes.

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

8. What does Yolanda decide to bake?
(a) An orange date nut cake.
(b) A chocolate fudge cake with walnuts.
(c) A carrot cake.
(d) A brownie fudge cake.

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

10. What picture does Miss Gilluly give Andrew and ask him what it is?
(a) A train.
(b) A fire hydrant.
(c) A police officer.
(d) A dog.

11. What is failing to hold Andrew's interest?
(a) Learning to read music.
(b) His friend's toy soldiers.
(c) His mother's recitation of his father's traits.
(d) Learning to read English.

12. What does Yolanda discover in the middle of the night?
(a) Andrew is not in his bed.
(b) Shirley is sleeping on the couch.
(c) Her mom is sleeping on the couch.
(d) The cake is in the garbage.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Andrew when Chapter 3 opens?

2. Where does Yolanda's mother decide to move her family?

3. Where is Yolanda's old crush Tyrone?

4. What is Yolanda doing while Andrew is playing his harmonica near Asphalt Hill?

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

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