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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 as the crowd gets rowdy?
(a) Asks her aunt to please watch Andrew.
(b) Grabs Andrew.
(c) Tells her mother she has to go to the bathroom.
(d) Tells Andrew to stick close to his momma.

2. How does Yolanda expect her mother to react to the haircut in front of the kids?
(a) Angry.
(b) Amused.
(c) Horrified.
(d) Embarrassed.

3. With what does Yolanda threaten the bullies?
(a) Her supposed relationship with Cool Breeze.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Stealing their drugs.
(d) The police.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yolanda's mother ask about several days after their visit to the music store?

2. What does Yolanda tell her mother she wants to be?

3. What does Aunt Tiny want to do for Yolanda?

4. What comment from her mother upsets Yolanda terribly?

5. Who does Yolanda think would have to be the one to discover Andrew?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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