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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 was Andrew told would help his Momma?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) For her children to behave better.
(c) Finding a husband.
(d) A vacation.

2. Where does Yolanda's family live at the opening of the novel?
(a) Flint.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Ann Arbor.

3. What is failing to hold Andrew's interest?
(a) Learning to read English.
(b) Learning to read music.
(c) His mother's recitation of his father's traits.
(d) His friend's toy soldiers.

4. What does Shirley hope Yolanda will teach her?
(a) How to study for an exam.
(b) How to do double-dutch.
(c) How to talk the librarian into letting her check out more than three books.
(d) How to increase Shirley's vocabularly.

5. Why would Andrew not want to do drugs?
(a) He's afraid of his mother finding out.
(b) He's afraid of going to jail.
(c) He has seen what drugs do to others.
(d) It is too expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yolanda make the rest of the kids feel?

2. Who scolds Andrew?

3. What does Vic show Andrew?

4. What is Yolanda often called by the other students?

5. Who calls Yolanda this word?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the skaters at Asphalt Hill's reactions to Andrew's harmonica playing?

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

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

4. Where has Yolanda chosen to sit in her classroom and why?

5. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

6. What is one terrible thing that has happened lately?

7. How does Shirley react to what Yolanda tells her?

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

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

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

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