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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, On Being a Child of Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When two men emerge from the building across the street, Angela seems to recognize them. Tycho asks who they are. What does Angel tell him?
(a) She says she doesn't know.
(b) She says one of the men is her uncle.
(c) She says one of the men is her father.
(d) She says she is having an affair with a much older man.

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

4. 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) Skip their community-service project and go to the beach.
(c) Skip their community-service project and go see a movie.
(d) Write letters of protest to politicians.

5. Angela's mother says she couldn't stay with Angela's father because ____.
(a) He didn't love her.
(b) He was moving to Wales.
(c) He didn't know she was pregnant.
(d) He was married.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robin offers to pick Angela up later in the day, she refuses. Why?

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

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

4. Where is the building the two men emerge from?

5. What sound does Angela hear when she wakes up?

(see the answer key)

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