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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Shirley have with her when she visits Yolanda?
(a) A set of jacks.
(b) A cake.
(c) A regulation Double-dutch jump rope.
(d) A puppy.

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

4. How does Yolanda's mother's hair look?
(a) It has dread locks with beads.
(b) It is just a couple inches long.
(c) It is dyed red.
(d) It is unbraided and unbeaded.

5. What sort of questions does Yolanda ask at the park?
(a) About a lost child situation.
(b) About how soon the performer is backstage before the concert.
(c) How to request a specific song.
(d) How to get the front row seats.

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

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

8. How does Yolanda try to make up her rudeness to Shirley?
(a) Yolanda offers her a cookie from her lunch.
(b) Yolanda invites her over after school.
(c) Yolanda offers her some of her chocolate bar.
(d) Yolanda offers her help with her vocabulary test.

9. What does Andrew play for the store owner?
(a) The angry sounds of Yolanda's fury during the fight.
(b) "Dixie."
(c) "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
(d) The sounds of skaters during an ice hockey match.

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

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

12. How does Yolanda feel about her current teacher?
(a) She thinks the teacher is prejudiced.
(b) She hates her teacher.
(c) She thinks the teacher dislikes her.
(d) She loves her teacher.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Yolanda snack on during the car trip?

3. What cause Yolanda to become furious?

4. For what does Yolanda blame Shirley?

5. How does Yolanda expect her mother to react to the haircut in front of the kids?

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