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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. Who calls Yolanda this word?
(a) A boy who sits behind her in class.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Shirley.
(d) Yolanda's mother.

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

3. What does Yolanda think about all day?
(a) The kind of cake she will make.
(b) How to manipulate her mother.
(c) Whether she really wants Shirley as a friend.
(d) Why Shirley is cozening up to her.

4. 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) Shirley is sleeping on the couch.
(d) Andrew is not in his bed.

5. How is Shirley?
(a) Excited at her first cake.
(b) Her eyes are full of tears.
(c) Angry that Yolanda left her to deal with the cake.
(d) Apologetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Yolanda go on the bus?

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

3. What word does Yolanda look up in the dictionary?

4. What does Andrew tell Yolanda finally concerning his harmonica?

5. What was Andrew told would help his Momma?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Yolanda suspicious of Shirley, yet still talks to her?

3. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

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

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

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

7. Who is impressed by Yolanda and why?

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

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

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

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