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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yolanda's momma want Yolanda to aspire to be someday?
(a) A policewoman.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A lawyer or judge.

2. What does Yolanda do to Romulus Foster?
(a) Punches him in the stomach.
(b) Slaps him in the face.
(c) Slams him into the ground.
(d) Kicks him in the shin.

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

4. What does Yolanda do as the crowd gets rowdy?
(a) Tells Andrew to stick close to his momma.
(b) Asks her aunt to please watch Andrew.
(c) Tells her mother she has to go to the bathroom.
(d) Grabs Andrew.

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

6. What does Yolanda do when she notices three men looking at her mother in the restaurant?
(a) She goes over and speaks to them.
(b) She giggles.
(c) She says they are leaving the restaurant.
(d) She points them out to her mother and teases her.

7. What is Yolanda looking for before the concert begins?
(a) Stoney.
(b) A way to get Andrew backstage.
(c) Her friend from Chicago.
(d) A way to distract her momma and Aunt Tiny.

8. When is Aunt Tiny going to visit?
(a) Yolanda is not sure.
(b) In several months.
(c) She had just visited before the story opens.
(d) Within days.

9. What does Yolanda do for the first time in months?
(a) Cry.
(b) Relax.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Turn down dessert.

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

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

12. Why does Yolanda have to pull off her scheme without her momma's help?
(a) Her momma would be embarrassed to do what Yolanda is doing.
(b) Her momma has to stay to assist Aunt Tiny.
(c) Her momma dislikes the performer and would not want to meet him.
(d) Her momma would not consider trying to get Andrew back stage.

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

14. What does the store owner think of Andrew's playing?
(a) He thinks Andrew is just blowing through the instrument with no idea of what he is doing.
(b) He thinks Andrew is awful.
(c) He is awestruck.
(d) He thinks Andrew needs some instruction.

15. What does Aunt Tiny want to do for Yolanda?
(a) Send her to a school for gifted children.
(b) Send Yolanda to a health spa for the summer.
(c) Get Yolanda extra piano lessons.
(d) Let Yolanda come and live with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Yolanda's mother not convinced concerning Andrew?

2. What does Yolanda do in dressing for the concert?

3. Who does Yolanda decide is the only person who can help Andrew?

4. Why does Yolanda steer Andrew away from his aunt and momma?

5. What does Yolanda fear in front of her Aunt Tiny?

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