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

2. Africa changes her story in the second phone call. What does she say?
(a) Her husband hit the baby.
(b) Her husband isn't even home.
(c) She actually hit her husband.
(d) Her husband didn't hit her; he threatened to hit her.

3. What has Tycho advised Angela to do about her father?
(a) Telephone him and ask if the two can meet.
(b) Ask her mother to set up a meeting.
(c) Send him a letter.
(d) Write him off and forget about him.

4. As Angela and Tycho are leaving the house, his mother reminds him to buy a present for Africa. Why?
(a) It is her first wedding anniversary.
(b) It is her baby's birthday.
(c) It is her second wedding anniversary.
(d) It is her birthday.

5. Angela wants Tycho to agree that wanting to meet her father is reasonable. What does Tycho say in response?
(a) "It's reasonable to want to know who your parents are. But that doesn't mean they'll want to know who you are."
(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. But is it realistic?"

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Angela rationalize her father's reaction to seeing her?

4. What philosophical idea does Tycho discuss with Angela?

5. When Angela asks her mother to tell her how her parents met, her mother says it was ____.

(see the answer key)

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