2. What does Shirley hope Yolanda will teach her?
(a) How to talk the librarian into letting her check out more than three books.
(b) How to increase Shirley's vocabularly.
(c) How to study for an exam.
(d) How to do double-dutch.

3. Why does Yolanda look up the word?
(a) To compliment her mother with something nice.
(b) To have a smart rejoinder for the boy the next day.
(c) To have a comment to Andrew.
(d) To figure out if she really is one.

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

5. What is wrong with Andrew's momma?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She has bad arthritis.
(c) She has a bad back.
(d) She is always tired.

6. What has Miss Gilluly given up trying to do?
(a) Teach Andrew to read.
(b) Get a promotion.
(c) Getting her students to want to learn.
(d) Stop Yolanda from raising her hand in class so much.

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

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

9. What is one group that hangs out at Asphalt Hill?
(a) Bookies.
(b) Parents.
(c) Girls watching the boys.
(d) Drug pushers.

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

11. What is failing to hold Andrew's interest?
(a) Learning to read English.
(b) His mother's recitation of his father's traits.
(c) His friend's toy soldiers.
(d) Learning to read music.

12. What does Yolanda do to the biggest bully at school?
(a) Ruins his food.
(b) Asks him for a chess match.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Wrestles him to the ground.

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

14. What is Asphalt Hill?
(a) Where skaters practice.
(b) A pile of tires about one hundred feet high.
(c) The scrapeyard.
(d) The dump behind Yolanda's home.

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