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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the building the two men emerge from?
(a) Beside a deep pond.
(b) At the edge of a dark woods.
(c) At a fork between two roads.
(d) At the convergence of three roads.

2. How do Richard and Tycho describe Africa?
(a) A silly girl.
(b) A good mother.
(c) A drama queen.
(d) An intellectual.

3. What reasoning does Angela initially give Tycho about her plan regarding her father?
(a) She says she wants only to have him see her face to face.
(b) She says that her father has always been a stranger and should remain so.
(c) She says she wants only to hear him say her name.
(d) She says she is attempting to meet her father for her mother's sake.

4. When Robin offers to pick Angela up later in the day, she refuses. Why?
(a) Dido won't let her have the car if Robin picks her up.
(b) She is afraid Robin will insult Dido.
(c) She is not going home after she and Tycho part.
(d) She is afraid Dido will insult Robin.

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

6. Chapter 4 reveals that, with respect to Robin, Tycho feels ____.
(a) Jealous.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Intimidated.

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

8. In Chapter 8, Angela meets up with Tycho again, and tells him ____.
(a) That Dido and Angela had an argument.
(b) That she is going to forget about trying to meet her father.
(c) About her plan to go to her father's office.
(d) About her idea that Roland is not really her father.

9. In Chapter 4, which character speaks the line: "Where do we go from here?"
(a) Robin.
(b) Tycho.
(c) Angela.
(d) Dido.

10. What sound does Angela hear when she wakes up?
(a) Her mother playing the harp.
(b) Her mother scything the grass.
(c) Her mother mowing the grass.
(d) Her mother talking to herself.

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

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

13. Angela's mother says she values two things in her life, _____ and Angela.
(a) Creativity.
(b) Art.
(c) Tycho.
(d) Solitude.

14. Why does Tycho respond to Angela's plan regarding her father in the way he initially does?
(a) He suspects Roland is not her father, and he doesn't want her to be embarrassed.
(b) He is afraid Angela will get hurt if her father rejects her again.
(c) He thinks Angela is just being self-absorbed.
(d) He thinks Dido will be upset and not let him see Angela anymore.

15. What philosopher does Tycho mention in Chapter 4?
(a) Pythagoras.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Marx.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Tycho advised Angela to do about her father?

2. What does Angela do when the two men enter the building she and Tycho are in?

3. Near the end of Chapter 8 Tycho agrees to ______.

4. When Angela finds out where her father lives, what does she do?

5. In Chapter 3, how is Richard described?

(see the answer keys)

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