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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 scientist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A policewoman.
(d) A lawyer or judge.

2. Where does Yolanda take Andrew after her encounter with Foster?
(a) School.
(b) Stellars.
(c) Home.
(d) An ice cream parlour.

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

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

5. 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 does not know about Yolanda's deal.
(c) He is too excited about Yolanda's encounter with the bullies.
(d) He wants an harmonica badly.

6. 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.

7. What does Yolanda snack on during the car trip?
(a) Licorice.
(b) Sour balls.
(c) Malt balls.
(d) Chips.

8. To whom else does Yolanda want to say goodbye?
(a) No one.
(b) Vic.
(c) Karl.
(d) Stoney.

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

10. What is one question Yolanda asks while she is at the park?
(a) Why the backdrop is striped.
(b) Why the lights are different colors.
(c) Where a lost child might be found.
(d) If the performers are already back stage.

11. What does Yolanda's mother ask about several days after their visit to the music store?
(a) Why Yolanda doesn't want to go to the park anymore.
(b) Where Andrew got the new harmonica.
(c) Why Andrew seems suddenly happy again.
(d) Why Yolanda is so bruised.

12. Where does Aunt Tiny work as a hairdresser?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Detroit.
(d) New York.

13. How does Shirley respond to Yolanda's attempt to make up?
(a) Shirley tells her she hates cookies.
(b) Shirley smiles and has some chocolate.
(c) Shirley says she already knows all the words.
(d) Shirley says she is grounded and can't come over.

14. Where is Yolanda's family going for a visit?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

15. What does Aunt Tiny say about Yolanda's piano playing?
(a) Not impressed.
(b) She thinks Yolanda is awful.
(c) She thinks Yolanda has great talent.
(d) She thinks Yolanda needs to practice more.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Yolanda's mother ask about Yolanda and her school?

3. What does Aunt Tiny always do when she visits?

4. What does Yolanda find in her search at the park?

5. How is Vic helping Andrew?

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