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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 volunteer to do the day of the concert?
(a) Get Andrew ready to go.
(b) Help Aunt Tiny finish cleaning her shop so they can leave on time.
(c) Help her mother cook breakfast so they can leave on time.
(d) Go to the park and reserve their seats.

2. What does Yolanda suggest she and Andrew do?
(a) Try out for the special arts school.
(b) Give a concert for her momma and Aunt Tiny.
(c) Both go to schools for geniuses.
(d) Talk to each other and decide who will go live with Aunt Tiny.

3. Where is Yolanda's family going for a visit?
(a) Boston.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

4. How does Yolanda enjoy the first concert?
(a) She does not even hear the first concert.
(b) She thinks the musician is far less talented than Andrew.
(c) Not at all as she is concentrating on her scheme.
(d) She is enthralled.

5. What inspires Yolanda for solving her dilemma about talking to a performer?
(a) Her momma knows the performer and says she will speak to him.
(b) Her Aunt Tiny suggests calling the performer ahead of time.
(c) She encounters a kind, wealthy woman who offers to help her.
(d) The backstage manager walks onstage with a small, blond boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yolanda feel about Aunt Tiny's proposal?

2. When is Aunt Tiny going to visit?

3. Of what is Yolanda's mother not convinced concerning Andrew?

4. What does Yolanda suggest to her mother about Andrew?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens that gives Yolanda an idea about how to get back stage?

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

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