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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. 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) Shirley's white and too short.
(d) Yolanda is ill and is no longer allowed to jump rope.

2. What cause Yolanda to become furious?
(a) Seeing the bullies the next day after they had broken Andrew's harmonica.
(b) Shirley saying she does not want to be friends any longer.
(c) Yolanda's mother saying that Andrew needs to concentrate on his studies.
(d) Shirley saying she does not think Andrew is a genius.

3. To whom else does Yolanda want to say goodbye?
(a) Stoney.
(b) Karl.
(c) Vic.
(d) No one.

4. What does Yolanda reply when Aunt Tiny asks if Shirley is a friend?
(a) Yolanda says no.
(b) Yolanda says Shirley is a white girl.
(c) Yolanda says she was but she was not a good friend.
(d) Yolanda says nothing.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yolanda manage to do?

2. Why does Yolanda not say goodbye to Shirley?

3. What does Yolanda realize as she is watching musicians unload their instruments?

4. When is Aunt Tiny going to visit?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How is Andrew responding to the new harmonica and what does Yolanda think will help him?

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

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

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