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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Yolanda feel better when she is thinking about her old home?
(a) The lake near her house.
(b) Going down to where musicians jam in the park.
(c) Having her own room.
(d) Andrew playing his instruments.

2. What is one group that hangs out at Asphalt Hill?
(a) Drug pushers.
(b) Parents.
(c) Girls watching the boys.
(d) Bookies.

3. What does Yolanda realize when she reads the word definition?
(a) The word is an insult to others but not her.
(b) She is not the true genius in the family.
(c) She is actually quite grown-up and infantile does not describe her.
(d) She is intelligent, but not exceptional.

4. What does Yolanda think about all day?
(a) Why Shirley is cozening up to her.
(b) The kind of cake she will make.
(c) How to manipulate her mother.
(d) Whether she really wants Shirley as a friend.

5. Who was shot by the person with the gun?
(a) The other janitor.
(b) Students and a teacher.
(c) No one.
(d) The principal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lie has come back to haunt Yolanda?

2. What does Shirley Piper wonder about Yolanda?

3. Why doesn't Andrew feel connected to the sounds in the house?

4. What is failing to hold Andrew's interest?

5. Who thinks Andrew is interfering with business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yolanda go to the library to research and what does she learn?

2. How is Andrew when Yolanda finds him, and what is her reaction?

3. Who is Andrew's teacher and why is she scolding him?

4. What does Yolanda yell to Shirley as Yolanda is running out of the house?

5. Why does Andrew go to Asphalt Hill?

6. Who is impressed by Yolanda and why?

7. How does Yolanda steer Shirley's interest away from talking about jump roping?

8. How does Andrew become confused when Miss Gilluly shows him a picture of a dog?

9. Describe Andrew's encounter with the drug pushers at Asphalt Hill.

10. What has Miss Gilluly done in relation to teaching Andrew to read?

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