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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 Asphalt Hill?
(a) A pile of tires about one hundred feet high.
(b) The dump behind Yolanda's home.
(c) The scrapeyard.
(d) Where skaters practice.

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

3. What does Shirley Piper wonder about Yolanda?
(a) If Yolanda studies for hours at night.
(b) If Yolanda is a genius.
(c) Why Yolando does not report the students who harass Yolanda.
(d) Why Yolanda would want the teacher to call on her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was at the playground when Andrew was there?

2. What other sound does Andrew like to hear on Asphalt Hill?

3. What seat does Yolando take in her classroom?

4. Why does Yolanda look up the word?

5. Where does Yolanda's family live at the opening of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Yolanda "borrow" of her mother's, and what is she thinking about as she does so?

3. Where has Yolanda chosen to sit in her classroom and why?

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

5. How does Yolanda feel in Michigan and why?

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

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

8. How is Andrew when Yolanda finds him, and what is her reaction?

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

10. Why does Momma decide to move from Chicago?

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