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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Yolanda often called by the other students?
(a) Miss Know It All.
(b) Teacher's Mosquito.
(c) Teacher's Pet (Elephant).
(d) Brown noser.

2. Of what does Yolanda try to convince herself as she runs to the park?
(a) That Shirley can take responsibility for the cake and do fine.
(b) That the neighborhood is safe.
(c) That Andrew is able to fight well.
(d) That other boys would protect Andrew.

3. Who is Vic Watts?
(a) Andrew's music teacher.
(b) Yolanda's English teacher.
(c) A black man called in to try to teach Andrew to read.
(d) Yolanda's math teacher.

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

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

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

7. Who thinks Andrew is interfering with business?
(a) The blind, old man who plays who trumpet for money on the corner.
(b) The hot dog vendor.
(c) The skating rink manager.
(d) The drug pushers.

8. How does Yolanda make the rest of the kids feel?
(a) Foolish.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Superior.
(d) Stupid because of her advanced vocabulary.

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

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

11. How old is Andrew?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 14.
(d) 7.

12. What was Andrew told would help his Momma?
(a) Finding a husband.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) A vacation.
(d) For her children to behave better.

13. What does Romulus ask of Andrew?
(a) To give him Andrew's second-best harmonica.
(b) To get closer to the rink so the skaters can hear him better.
(c) What Andrew would get for his mother's birthday.
(d) To play some notes on the harmonica.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yolanda's mother's pestering figure into Yolanda getting to do something she likes to do?

2. What does Shirley Piper wonder about Yolanda?

3. Who came into the school with a gun?

4. How is Shirley?

5. Who calls Yolanda this word?

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