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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Shirley respond to Yolanda talking to her?
(a) She tells Yolanda to be quiet.
(b) She pretends to be listening but is just daydreaming.
(c) She thinks Yolanda is crazy.
(d) She hangs on Yolanda's every word.

2. What does Romulus ask of Andrew?
(a) To give him Andrew's second-best harmonica.
(b) What Andrew would get for his mother's birthday.
(c) To play some notes on the harmonica.
(d) To get closer to the rink so the skaters can hear him better.

3. How many terrible things have happened recently in Yolanda's life?
(a) 4.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. Who scolds Andrew?
(a) Miss Gilluly.
(b) His mother.
(c) Yolanda.
(d) His music teacher.

5. Who calls Yolanda this word?
(a) Yolanda's mother.
(b) Shirley.
(c) A boy who sits behind her in class.
(d) Andrew.

6. What does Yolanda discover in the middle of the night?
(a) Andrew is not in his bed.
(b) Shirley is sleeping on the couch.
(c) The cake is in the garbage.
(d) Her mom is sleeping on the couch.

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

8. Why is Andrew uninterested in the photograph?
(a) Andew does not care what happened several hundred years ago.
(b) Andrew is afraid of dogs.
(c) The children in the photo do not resemble Andrew.
(d) Andrew thinks the parasol is silly.

9. What makes Yolanda feel better when she is thinking about her old home?
(a) Andrew playing his instruments.
(b) Having her own room.
(c) Going down to where musicians jam in the park.
(d) The lake near her house.

10. How does Yolanda feel in her new home?
(a) Sad.
(b) Scared.
(c) Excited.
(d) Hopeless.

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

12. Who came into the school with a gun?
(a) A janitor.
(b) A student.
(c) A drug dealer.
(d) A teacher.

13. What does Yolanda decide to bake?
(a) A brownie fudge cake.
(b) An orange date nut cake.
(c) A chocolate fudge cake with walnuts.
(d) A carrot cake.

14. Who is Vic Watts?
(a) Yolanda's math teacher.
(b) Yolanda's English teacher.
(c) Andrew's music teacher.
(d) A black man called in to try to teach Andrew to read.

15. What does Shirley mean when she tells Yolanda that it takes one to know one?
(a) That because Shirley's father is also dead, she understands Yolanda's grief.
(b) That it takes a reject at school to understand another reject.
(c) That because Shirley's mother is also ill, she understands Yolanda's pain.
(d) That since Yolanda is a genius, she would naturally recognize another genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Andrew when Chapter 3 opens?

2. What is Yolanda yelling to Shirley as Yolanda rushes out of the house?

3. How is the cake when Yolanda arrives back home?

4. Who is Stoney Buxton?

5. Who was at the playground when Andrew was there?

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