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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, A Leap into the Abyss.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tycho is surprised when he watches Richard dressing. Why?
(a) Richard is dressing in his best clothes.
(b) Richard is wearing a tie.
(c) Richard puts on a pair of his father's socks.
(d) Richard puts on a pair of clean briefs and then a pair of old ones with holes over top.

2. While Angela and Tcyho are walking to her house, they see what appears to be Dido's car on _________.
(a) Dry Creek Road.
(b) Dry Bed Road.
(c) Dry Street.
(d) Dry River Run.

3. Richard jokes that Africa's husband should have ____.
(a) Hit her harder, to knock her out.
(b) Left her.
(c) Drove her to her parents himself.
(d) Apologized.

4. Angela wants Tycho to agree that wanting to meet her father is reasonable. What does Tycho say in response?
(a) "It's reasonable. But is it realistic?"
(b) "What's the use of being reasonable when no one else is?"
(c) "What's the point in being reasonable when it doesn't get you what you want?"
(d) "It's reasonable to want to know who your parents are. But that doesn't mean they'll want to know who you are."

5. During their phone call, Dido tells Tycho that she is worried. What is she worried about?
(a) That Angela has been in an accident.
(b) That Angela will not forgive her for the mistruths she has told about Roland.
(c) That Angela has run away.
(d) That Angela might harm herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, how is Tycho portrayed?

2. Angela tells Tycho that she left the bar with a stranger but decided not to sleep with him. Why not?

3. Tycho says people avoided him when he was younger because ___.

4. At the end of Chapter 9, Angela refuses to take a ride home with Tycho. He gives her $10 and leaves. Where does he go?

5. Richard tells his father that both he and Tycho feel _____ toward Africa.

(see the answer key)

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