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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 as she is waiting at the concert that night?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Excited.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Confident.

2. Why doesn't Andrew have any stage fright when he goes to play for the music store owner?
(a) He does not know about Yolanda's deal.
(b) He never gets stage fright.
(c) He wants an harmonica badly.
(d) He is too excited about Yolanda's encounter with the bullies.

3. How is Vic helping Andrew?
(a) By getting him music lessons with a well known teacher.
(b) By helping Andrew learn to ride a bike.
(c) By using music to teach Andrew to read.
(d) By taking Andrew to the museums to teach him to read.

4. What does Yolanda do when she notices three men looking at her mother in the restaurant?
(a) She goes over and speaks to them.
(b) She says they are leaving the restaurant.
(c) She points them out to her mother and teases her.
(d) She giggles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yolanda manage to do?

2. What does Yolanda tell Shirley?

3. How does Shirley respond to Yolanda's attempt to make up?

4. What does Yolanda suggest she and Andrew do?

5. How does Yolanda try to make up her rudeness to Shirley?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens when Yolanda and Andrew visit Stellers music store?

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

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

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

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

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