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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yolanda suggest to her mother about Andrew?
(a) That he would be lost without her at home.
(b) That Yolanda should be allowed to join the police cadets.
(c) That Andrew is the musician and should live with Aunt Tiny.
(d) That he needs a special school because he is a genius.

2. What does Yolanda tell Shirley?
(a) That being friends is a waste of time.
(b) That Shirley needs to bring two other people with her to turn the rope.
(c) That Yolanda lied about being able to double-dutch.
(d) That Yolanda has been told by her doctor she is not allowed to jump rope.

3. Who does Yolanda decide is the only person who can help Andrew?
(a) Andrew's music teacher.
(b) Their father.
(c) Their grandfather.
(d) Aunt Tiny.

4. What does Yolanda tell her mother she wants to be?
(a) A police officer.
(b) An airline stewardess.
(c) A pilot.
(d) An English teacher.

5. Why doesn't Andrew have any stage fright when he goes to play for the music store owner?
(a) He is too excited about Yolanda's encounter with the bullies.
(b) He does not know about Yolanda's deal.
(c) He never gets stage fright.
(d) He wants an harmonica badly.

6. Why do Aunt Tiny and Yolanda's momma look confused?
(a) Because Yolanda acts as though Andrew is a genius.
(b) Because of the way Andrew seems to play the same three chords over and over.
(c) Because Yolanda says she loves her school when all she's ever done is complain.
(d) Because of the concert Yolanda and Andrew give.

7. What does Andrew realize as he listens to his sister dancing?
(a) He has the best sister that any boy could want.
(b) He needs more instruments than just the harmonica.
(c) He wants to become a dancer.
(d) He no longer loves music.

8. What does the store agree to do?
(a) Give the harmonica to Andrew for the discount price.
(b) Let Yolanda work off the price of the harmonica and give Andrew music lessons.
(c) Let Yolanda work off the rest of the price.
(d) Let Andrew work for music lessons.

9. What does Yolanda do at Grant Park?
(a) Jump rope.
(b) Reserve seats.
(c) Swim.
(d) Skate.

10. What does Yolanda reply when Aunt Tiny asks if Shirley is a friend?
(a) Yolanda says nothing.
(b) Yolanda says Shirley is a white girl.
(c) Yolanda says no.
(d) Yolanda says she was but she was not a good friend.

11. What comment from her mother upsets Yolanda terribly?
(a) That Yolanda will go to live with Aunt Tiny in a better neighborhood.
(b) That Yolanda and Andrew were making terrible noise.
(c) That Andrew should concentrate on academics and not music.
(d) That Andrew is as far from a musical genius as one can get.

12. What cause Yolanda to become furious?
(a) Seeing the bullies the next day after they had broken Andrew's harmonica.
(b) Shirley saying she does not want to be friends any longer.
(c) Shirley saying she does not think Andrew is a genius.
(d) Yolanda's mother saying that Andrew needs to concentrate on his studies.

13. What does Yolanda think might be her reward for bravery?
(a) A lecture from her mother.
(b) An attack when she is walking alone and unprepared.
(c) A black eye.
(d) Stoney's admiration.

14. Why does Yolanda say Shirley cannot learn to double dutch?
(a) Yolanda says her mother has forbidden her to jump rope anymore.
(b) Shirley's white and too short.
(c) Yolanda has taken a pledge to never reveal how to do it.
(d) Yolanda is ill and is no longer allowed to jump rope.

15. What does Yolanda manage to do?
(a) Break foster's leg.
(b) Knock the air out of Foster so he couldn't breathe.
(c) Break her finger.
(d) Fight off three bullies at once.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stoney Buxton call out to Yolanda?

2. How does Yolanda's mother dress when they go out to dinner?

3. How does Yolanda feel as she is waiting at the concert that night?

4. Where is the concert being held?

5. What is Yolanda doing when Shirley comes to visit?

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