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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, A Road of Blood and Flowers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Angela rationalize her father's reaction to seeing her?
(a) She convinces herself that her father is just shocked to see her.
(b) She convinces herself that her father didn't recognize her.
(c) She says it is understandable that he wouldn't acknowledge her in public.
(d) She thinks perhaps she is mistaken and the man isn't really her father.

2. How do Richard and Tycho describe Africa?
(a) A drama queen.
(b) A silly girl.
(c) A good mother.
(d) An intellectual.

3. Angela has an idea of what she and Tycho can do for the day in Chapter 3. What does she propose?
(a) Skip school and go to a concert.
(b) Write letters of protest to politicians.
(c) Skip their community-service project and go to the beach.
(d) Skip their community-service project and go see a movie.

4. Africa's son is named ____.
(a) Hamish.
(b) Hamry.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Henry.

5. Being from a single-parent family, Angela considers herself part of _____.
(a) The missing-parent group.
(b) Nothing; she doesn't really think about it.
(c) The broken-home gang.
(d) The broken-home fellowship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Angela wants Tycho to agree that wanting to meet her father is reasonable. What does Tycho say in response?

2. Tycho compares common sense and ______.

3. Which is the eldest of the siblings in Tycho's family?

4. What does Angela say that indicates she has romanticized the relationship between her mother and father?

5. Angela has indicated that she is taking Tycho to an unknown place but won't tell him where. Where is she taking him?

(see the answer key)

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