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

2. How does Andrew wake up the family in the mornings?
(a) Playing his drums.
(b) Singing to the radio.
(c) Playing the stereo loudly and dancing.
(d) Playing his flute or harmonica.

3. Who scolds Andrew?
(a) His music teacher.
(b) Miss Gilluly.
(c) His mother.
(d) Yolanda.

4. What does Yolanda take Shirley through with painstaking detail?
(a) The steps in creating a rubric.
(b) The way to make a poster presentation.
(c) The steps in the double-dutch form.
(d) The steps in making a cake.

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

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

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

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

9. To what smell does Yolando wake?
(a) Bacon frying and pancakes cooking.
(b) Fish frying and waffles sizzling.
(c) Her dog breathing in her face.
(d) Tar when the road is being repaired.

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

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

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

13. 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 Doberman pincher barking at intruders.
(d) The cry of frogs who live in the stagnant water inside the tires.

14. About what does Andrew dream?
(a) Burying his harmonica.
(b) Get revenge against Romulus Foster.
(c) Hitting Chimp over and over.
(d) Giving his second-best harmonica away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in an illustration that gives Andrew no motivation?

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

3. What does Yolanda decide to bake?

4. What word does Yolanda look up in the dictionary?

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

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