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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Romulus Foster?
(a) A friend of Andrew's mother.
(b) The leader of the drug pushers.
(c) One of Andrew's classmates.
(d) One of the skaters who likes Andrew's playing.

2. What picture does Miss Gilluly give Andrew and ask him what it is?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A fire hydrant.
(c) A train.
(d) A dog.

3. What does Yolanda usually have when she answers a question in class?
(a) A group of students who clap.
(b) An additional comment about her answer.
(c) A big grin on her face.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who was shot by the person with the gun?
(a) No one.
(b) The principal.
(c) Students and a teacher.
(d) The other janitor.

5. What has Andrew be nicknamed by some of the boys that hang out at Asphalt Hill?
(a) The Mouth.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The Pied Piper.
(d) Soft shoe Andro.

6. What does Yolanda suddenly remember when Shirley mentions Andrew?
(a) She and Andrew have to stay with their father the next weekend.
(b) She wants to save a piece of the cake for Andrew.
(c) She forgot to pick up Andrew at the park.
(d) She has a present for Andrew.

7. What lie has come back to haunt Yolanda?
(a) About her father being dead.
(b) About her abilities as a jump roper.
(c) About her mother's supposed illness.
(d) About her abilities as a psychic.

8. Who is Stoney Buxton?
(a) A boy who is learning to play the flute.
(b) A drug dealer in the neighborhood.
(c) A skater who says he does better when Andrew is playing his harmonica.
(d) A boy who is learning harmonica also.

9. How does Andrew wake up the family in the mornings?
(a) Playing the stereo loudly and dancing.
(b) Playing his drums.
(c) Playing his flute or harmonica.
(d) Singing to the radio.

10. How does Yolanda's mother's pestering figure into Yolanda getting to do something she likes to do?
(a) She'll offer to learn how to make a dinner meal if she can bake a cake for the dessert.
(b) She'll use the excuse of making friends to bake a cake for her friend.
(c) She'll clean her room for company and then bake a cake for her friend.
(d) She'll stop reading if she can bake a cake.

11. Who is Willie Meredith?
(a) The principal who is dead.
(b) The janitor who is dead.
(c) The janitor who brings the gun to school.
(d) A student who is shot dead.

12. Who thinks Andrew is interfering with business?
(a) The skating rink manager.
(b) The blind, old man who plays who trumpet for money on the corner.
(c) The hot dog vendor.
(d) The drug pushers.

13. What does Yolanda take Shirley through with painstaking detail?
(a) The steps in creating a rubric.
(b) The steps in making a cake.
(c) The way to make a poster presentation.
(d) The steps in the double-dutch form.

14. What did Andrew not know about what was in his pocket?
(a) The substance is illegal.
(b) The money is stolen.
(c) The beatle is still alive.
(d) It is cocaine.

15. What does Yolanda realize when she reads the word definition?
(a) The word is an insult to others but not her.
(b) She is intelligent, but not exceptional.
(c) She is not the true genius in the family.
(d) She is actually quite grown-up and infantile does not describe her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Asphalt Hill?

2. Of what does Yolanda try to convince herself as she runs to the park?

3. What seat does Yolando take in her classroom?

4. What does Andrew tell Yolanda finally concerning his harmonica?

5. What does Yolanda think about all day?

(see the answer keys)

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