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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 comment from her mother upsets Yolanda terribly?
(a) That Yolanda and Andrew were making terrible noise.
(b) That Andrew should concentrate on academics and not music.
(c) That Yolanda will go to live with Aunt Tiny in a better neighborhood.
(d) That Andrew is as far from a musical genius as one can get.

2. What sort of questions does Yolanda ask at the park?
(a) How to get the front row seats.
(b) About a lost child situation.
(c) How to request a specific song.
(d) About how soon the performer is backstage before the concert.

3. Why do Aunt Tiny and Yolanda's momma look confused?
(a) Because Yolanda acts as though Andrew is a genius.
(b) Because Yolanda says she loves her school when all she's ever done is complain.
(c) Because of the concert Yolanda and Andrew give.
(d) Because of the way Andrew seems to play the same three chords over and over.

4. With what does Yolanda threaten the bullies?
(a) The police.
(b) Stealing their drugs.
(c) Her supposed relationship with Cool Breeze.
(d) Her mother.

5. What does Yolanda lie about to the two women she is talking with at the park?
(a) Being kin to the performer.
(b) Not feeling well.
(c) Being asked to deliver something to the performer.
(d) Her brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Vic helping Andrew?

2. What does Yolanda say about Andrew's tendency in a large crowd?

3. Where does Aunt Tiny work as a hairdresser?

4. Why does Yolanda say Shirley cannot learn to double dutch?

5. What does Yolanda find in her search at the park?

Short Essay Questions

1. What disturbs Yolanda about how Aunt Tiny fixes Yolanda's mother's hair?

2. What does Momma say in reply to Yolanda saying Andrew is a genius and needs a special school?

3. Describe the exchange between Yolanda and Shirley in school concerning the jump rope.

4. How do Yolanda and Andrew play in their concert for Aunt Tiny and Yolanda's momma, and how do the two women respond to the performance?

5. What happens that gives Yolanda an idea about how to get back stage?

6. How does Yolanda explain all her questions to the security guards?

7. Why doesn't there seem to be any way back stage?

8. Why does Yolanda volunteer to reserve her family's seats for the concert that evening?

9. What "epiphany" does Yolanda have when she is at the park?

10. What does Aunt Tiny do for a living, and how does that help Yolanda's family?

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