View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who came into the school with a gun?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A student.
(c) A janitor.
(d) A drug dealer.

3. What does Yolanda miss about her former home?
(a) Her very best friend.
(b) The sights, sounds and tastes.
(c) The public library which was a block away.
(d) The better schools.

4. What is Yolanda often called by the other students?
(a) Brown noser.
(b) Miss Know It All.
(c) Teacher's Mosquito.
(d) Teacher's Pet (Elephant).

5. What word does Yolanda look up in the dictionary?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Retard.
(c) Infantile.
(d) Genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Miss Gilluly given up trying to do?

2. What is wrong with Andrew's momma?

3. What does Yolanda's mother hope Andrew some day becomes?

4. What does Vic show Andrew?

5. How old is Andrew?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yolanda go about getting Andrew a new harmonica?

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

3. Why does Andrew go to Asphalt Hill?

4. What does Yolanda tell herself as she is running to Asphalt Hill?

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

6. Why does Yolanda usually add a comment when she answers a question?

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

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

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

10. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 744 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample