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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 is Yolanda yelling to Shirley as Yolanda rushes out of the house?
(a) To call Yolanda's mother.
(b) To call the police.
(c) To lock the door when she leaves.
(d) Directions to baking the cake.

2. What has Miss Gilluly given up trying to do?
(a) Stop Yolanda from raising her hand in class so much.
(b) Get a promotion.
(c) Getting her students to want to learn.
(d) Teach Andrew to read.

3. Who thinks Andrew is interfering with business?
(a) The hot dog vendor.
(b) The skating rink manager.
(c) The drug pushers.
(d) The blind, old man who plays who trumpet for money on the corner.

4. What has Andrew be nicknamed by some of the boys that hang out at Asphalt Hill?
(a) The Pied Piper.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Soft shoe Andro.
(d) The Mouth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Andrew told would help his Momma?

2. For what is Andrew scolded?

3. What does Vic ask Andrew to play on Andrew's harmonica?

4. What picture does Miss Gilluly give Andrew and ask him what it is?

5. What is wrong with Andrew's momma?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the other terrible thing that has happened recently?

3. What does Shirley say about double-dutch that causes Yolanda great discomfort?

4. Who does Andrew meet when he arrives for his reading lesson?

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

6. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

7. What does Yolanda "borrow" of her mother's, and what is she thinking about as she does so?

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

9. How is the cake when Yolanda returns from the park with Andrew?

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

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