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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Family Matters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tycho counts the hours until _____.
(a) He has to go to school.
(b) He can leave home for good.
(c) He will see Angela again.
(d) He has to go to work.

2. What is the significance, in Chapter 3, of the quote, "Nothing exists but atoms and the void."
(a) Angela has given Tycho a card with this quote on it.
(b) Tycho has pinned this quote over his bed.
(c) Tycho's father is an atomic scientist.
(d) Tycho quotes this to Richard.

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

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

5. What is Richard's reaction to the news that Africa is coming home?
(a) He is angry because he doesn't want to share a room with Tycho.
(b) He is annoyed because she is noisy.
(c) He is happy because he misses her.
(d) He is anxious because he doesn't like her baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Angela's mother says she couldn't stay with Angela's father because ____.

2. Africa's husband's name is ____.

3. In the first scene in the novel, Angela is awakened by ____.

4. Angela's mother's name is ____.

5. Richard is groaning about the possibility that Africa will return home. What does Tycho tell him?

(see the answer key)

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