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

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

3. What is Yolanda doing while Andrew is playing his harmonica near Asphalt Hill?
(a) Going to the public library.
(b) Reading a book under the tree.
(c) Talking with Shirley.
(d) Talking with one of the boys who is skating.

4. What does Andrew tell Yolanda finally concerning his harmonica?
(a) That drug pushers broke it.
(b) That he has decided to take up guitar.
(c) That he dropped it and it broke and he was so angry, he broke it the rest of the way.
(d) That is was going bad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What tension is there at Asphalt Hill?

2. What is Asphalt Hill?

3. What does Andrew continue to do after school?

4. What does Yolanda decide to bake?

5. Who came into the school with a gun?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yolanda steer Shirley's interest away from talking about jump roping?

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

3. Who is impressed by Yolanda and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

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