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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 horrifies Yolanda about the way Aunt Tiny cuts Yolanda's mother's hair?
(a) It is too short.
(b) It is too puffed out.
(c) The style is flirty.
(d) It is too straight.

2. What is one question Yolanda asks while she is at the park?
(a) Why the lights are different colors.
(b) Why the backdrop is striped.
(c) Where a lost child might be found.
(d) If the performers are already back stage.

3. What does Yolanda manage to do?
(a) Fight off three bullies at once.
(b) Break foster's leg.
(c) Knock the air out of Foster so he couldn't breathe.
(d) Break her finger.

4. What does Yolanda fear in front of her Aunt Tiny?
(a) Aunt Tiny learning that Yolanda lied about being able to double-dutch.
(b) That Shirley would tell Aunt Tiny about her fight with the bullies.
(c) That Aunt Tiny would urge Yolanda to jump rope with Shirley.
(d) That Yolanda has a white girl for a friend.

5. What does Yolanda find in her search at the park?
(a) Good seats.
(b) Two security guards.
(c) The performer.
(d) Two stage hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yolanda's strongest trait to help her pull off her scheme?

2. Where is the concert being held?

3. What does Yolanda reply when Aunt Tiny asks if Shirley is a friend?

4. What does Yolanda lie about to the two women she is talking with at the park?

5. What does Yolanda volunteer to do the day of the concert?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Yolanda unable to listen as the concert opens?

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

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

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

7. What happens when Yolanda notices three men eying her momma?

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

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

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

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