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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 does Yolanda do to the biggest bully at school?
(a) Asks him for a chess match.
(b) Wrestles him to the ground.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Ruins his food.

2. What is Yolanda's mother always pestering her to do?
(a) Learn to cook.
(b) Clean her room.
(c) Stop reading so much.
(d) Make friends.

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

4. What is different about Vic Watts?
(a) He is in a wheelchair.
(b) He is deaf.
(c) He is blind.
(d) He has a bad stutter.

5. What cheers Yolanda's spirits?
(a) The cake tastes great.
(b) Andrew eats a big piece of the cake and seems better.
(c) Andrew is safe and plays them a song on his harmonica.
(d) Shirley is still impressed with Yolanda's genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Yolanda try to convince herself as she runs to the park?

2. Who is Willie Meredith?

3. What is in an illustration that gives Andrew no motivation?

4. Where does Yolanda's mother decide to move her family?

5. Where does Yolanda's family live at the opening of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What gives Yolanda comfort in her new home?

5. What is Yolanda thinking about as the novel opens?

6. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

7. Why is the darker side of Asphalt Hill, and what are Andrews thoughts about that?

8. How does Yolanda respond to the cruel comments by the other children on the bus?

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

10. Why is Yolanda suspicious of Shirley, yet still talks to her?

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