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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What seat does Yolando take in her classroom?
(a) As far back as possible.
(b) Where she is most visible to the teacher.
(c) Next to a boy who smiles at her.
(d) In the middle where she will blend in and not be noticed.

3. What does Yolanda offer to teach Shirley?
(a) How to make lasagna.
(b) How to make money at a lemonade stand.
(c) How to write cursive.
(d) How to bake the perfect cake.

4. What does Vic show Andrew?
(a) His talking wristwatch.
(b) Carnegie Hall to demonstrate to Andrew where he could end up.
(c) The sheet music for the song Andrew plays.
(d) The electric controls on his wheelchair.

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

6. What does Yolanda usually have when she answers a question in class?
(a) A big grin on her face.
(b) An additional comment about her answer.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A group of students who clap.

7. What will be better with the move?
(a) They will own their own home.
(b) It will costs less to live.
(c) The neighborhood will be safer.
(d) The apartment will be bigger.

8. What does Shirley Piper wonder about Yolanda?
(a) Why Yolanda would want the teacher to call on her.
(b) Why Yolando does not report the students who harass Yolanda.
(c) If Yolanda studies for hours at night.
(d) If Yolanda is a genius.

9. What does Andrew tell Yolanda finally concerning his harmonica?
(a) That he has decided to take up guitar.
(b) That he dropped it and it broke and he was so angry, he broke it the rest of the way.
(c) That is was going bad.
(d) That drug pushers broke it.

10. What word does Yolanda look up in the dictionary?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Retard.
(c) Infantile.
(d) Genius.

11. What does Yolanda's mother hope Andrew some day becomes?
(a) A musician.
(b) A police officer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A doctor.

12. What does Yolanda's Momma find in Andrew's pocket?
(a) A gun.
(b) A bag of marijuana.
(c) A bag of cocaine.
(d) A note from the drug dealer who shot the principal.

13. What does Yolanda do a lot of in the classroom?
(a) Raise her hand.
(b) Talk to her neighbors.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Write notes.

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

15. What lie has come back to haunt Yolanda?
(a) About her abilities as a jump roper.
(b) About her father being dead.
(c) About her mother's supposed illness.
(d) About her abilities as a psychic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who scolds Andrew?

3. Who was shot by the person with the gun?

4. What does Romulus ask of Andrew?

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

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