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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Wobble in the Cemetery of the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Angela asks her mother to tell her how her parents met, her mother says it was ____.
(a) Like a movie.
(b) Like a fairy tale.
(c) An accident.
(d) Romantic.

2. Tycho compares common sense and ______.
(a) Realism.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Truth.
(d) Fantasy.

3. When Angela brings up the idea of a reconciliation between her parents, her mother rejects the idea. Why?
(a) She doesn't want to disrupt her lifestyle.
(b) She doesn't want to get Angela's hopes up.
(c) She is too tired to pursue a relationship, and they've both changed too much.
(d) She likes living alone.

4. Richard goads Tycho about the quote, "Nothing exists but atoms and the void," saying he is ____.
(a) So naive.
(b) So ridiculous.
(c) So boring.
(d) So middle class.

5. Richard tells his father that both he and Tycho feel _____ toward Africa.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Love.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Affection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Angela's boyfriend's name is ____.

2. According to Tycho, what property does truth have?

3. Angela likes to hear the story of the relationship between her mother and father because it makes her feel ____.

4. Angela's best friend's name is ___.

5. Tycho confides to Angela that when he was younger he had a reputation as ____.

(see the answer key)

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