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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 will be better with the move?
(a) The neighborhood will be safer.
(b) The apartment will be bigger.
(c) They will own their own home.
(d) It will costs less to live.

2. Why is Andrew uninterested in the photograph?
(a) Andrew thinks the parasol is silly.
(b) Andrew is afraid of dogs.
(c) The children in the photo do not resemble Andrew.
(d) Andew does not care what happened several hundred years ago.

3. What does Yolanda discover in the middle of the night?
(a) The cake is in the garbage.
(b) Her mom is sleeping on the couch.
(c) Andrew is not in his bed.
(d) Shirley is sleeping on the couch.

4. What other sound does Andrew like to hear on Asphalt Hill?
(a) The bulldozers moving the trash around.
(b) The cry of frogs who live in the stagnant water inside the tires.
(c) The Doberman pincher barking at intruders.
(d) The cries of the boys who take a hill too daringly.

5. What does Shirley mean when she tells Yolanda that it takes one to know one?
(a) That because Shirley's mother is also ill, she understands Yolanda's pain.
(b) That because Shirley's father is also dead, she understands Yolanda's grief.
(c) That since Yolanda is a genius, she would naturally recognize another genius.
(d) That it takes a reject at school to understand another reject.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many terrible things have happened recently in Yolanda's life?

3. What is Yolanda's mother always pestering her to do?

4. What is Asphalt Hill?

5. What does Vic show Andrew?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Andrew go to Asphalt Hill?

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

3. Who is impressed by Yolanda and why?

4. How does Vic use music to make a connection with Andrew?

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

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

7. What gives Yolanda comfort in her new home?

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

9. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

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

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