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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 does Yolanda do for the first time in months?
(a) Cry.
(b) Play the piano.
(c) Turn down dessert.
(d) Relax.

2. Why does Yolanda say Shirley cannot learn to double dutch?
(a) Yolanda has taken a pledge to never reveal how to do it.
(b) Yolanda says her mother has forbidden her to jump rope anymore.
(c) Yolanda is ill and is no longer allowed to jump rope.
(d) Shirley's white and too short.

3. What does Yolanda snack on during the car trip?
(a) Sour balls.
(b) Malt balls.
(c) Licorice.
(d) Chips.

4. What does Yolanda think might be her reward for bravery?
(a) Stoney's admiration.
(b) A lecture from her mother.
(c) An attack when she is walking alone and unprepared.
(d) A black eye.

5. What does Yolanda suggest to her mother about Andrew?
(a) That he would be lost without her at home.
(b) That Yolanda should be allowed to join the police cadets.
(c) That he needs a special school because he is a genius.
(d) That Andrew is the musician and should live with Aunt Tiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Andrew play for the store owner?

2. How does Shirley respond?

3. How does Yolanda feel about her current teacher?

4. Where does Aunt Tiny work as a hairdresser?

5. What does Stoney Buxton call out to Yolanda?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Yolanda not say goodbye to anyone when her family is leaving to go visit Aunt Tiny?

4. What does Yolanda do when she sees two female security guards?

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

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

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

8. Why does Yolanda send Shirley away in a cruel manner?

9. What happens when Momma finally notices Andrew's new harmonica?

10. Describe Yolanda's family's first night with Aunt Tiny.

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