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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. Where does Yolanda's family live at the opening of the novel?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Ann Arbor.
(d) Flint.

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

3. How does Yolanda's mother's pestering figure into Yolanda getting to do something she likes to do?
(a) She'll offer to learn how to make a dinner meal if she can bake a cake for the dessert.
(b) She'll clean her room for company and then bake a cake for her friend.
(c) She'll use the excuse of making friends to bake a cake for her friend.
(d) She'll stop reading if she can bake a cake.

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

5. Who is Vic Watts?
(a) Yolanda's math teacher.
(b) A black man called in to try to teach Andrew to read.
(c) Yolanda's English teacher.
(d) Andrew's music teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Andrew when Chapter 3 opens?

2. How does Andrew wake up the family in the mornings?

3. What sounds does Andrew like to hear on Asphalt Hill?

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

5. What does the Chimp do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Momma decide to move from Chicago?

10. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

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