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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. How does Yolanda feel about her current teacher?
(a) She hates her teacher.
(b) She loves her teacher.
(c) She thinks the teacher is prejudiced.
(d) She thinks the teacher dislikes her.

2. When is Aunt Tiny going to visit?
(a) She had just visited before the story opens.
(b) Yolanda is not sure.
(c) Within days.
(d) In several months.

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

4. What does Yolanda do in dressing for the concert?
(a) Dresses all in black so she can sneak around.
(b) Tries to look fashionable and wealthy.
(c) Tries to make herself appear young and vulnerable.
(d) Dresses like a boy so she will be safer sneaking around.

5. What does Yolanda say about Andrew's tendency in a large crowd?
(a) That he gets scared.
(b) That he will not be around a large crowd.
(c) That he treats everyone like his best friend.
(d) That he tends to wander off.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Vic helping Andrew?

2. How does Yolanda's mother dress when they go out to dinner?

3. Where does Aunt Tiny work as a hairdresser?

4. Why is Yolanda upset about what Stoney Buxton tells her?

5. What does Yolanda fear in front of her Aunt Tiny?

Short Essay Questions

1. What idea does Momma bring up while they are traveling that disturbs Yolanda?

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

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

4. Who admires Yolanda standing up to Romulus, and what is Yolanda's response to his admiration?

5. How does Yolanda feel after Shirley leaves and what does she say to her aunt Tiny about Shirley?

6. What does Momma want Yolanda to study in college and what are Yolanda's ambitions?

7. What does Yolanda do when she sees the bullies in Asphalt Hill?

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

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