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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the first scene in the novel, Angela is awakened by ____.
(a) Moonlight through the window.
(b) Rain.
(c) The sound of a lawn mower.
(d) A cat meowing.

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

4. How does Tycho know that Angela's explanation about the two men who came out of the building is a lie?
(a) One of the men bears a striking resemblance to Angela.
(b) The men don't speak English.
(c) One of the men is his own uncle.
(d) The men are Robin's father and his brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When her mother asks why Angela doesn't date Tycho instead of Robin, what reason does she give?

2. Africa's parents do not pick her up because ____.

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

4. When Tycho hears Angela's explanation of what she wants her plan to accomplish, what does he believe?

5. While Angela and her mother are having breakfast, Dido interrogates Angela about ____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Angela is aware that Mrs. Potter does not like her. How is this demonstrated when she visits Tycho the day after Africa's phone call?

2. What secret is Angela keeping from her mother in Chapter 1?

3. Dido asks Angela, during the picnic breakfast, why she doesn't date Tycho rather than Robin. Why? How does Angela respond?

4. Angela asks for Tycho's help in carrying out her plan to confront her father in his office. What does her asking Tycho, rather than someone else or rather than going to the office alone, tell us?

5. How does the author make clear that Angela and the man in the coffee shop who resembles her are from entirely different worlds?

6. In Chapter 3, the author portrays Angela as somewhat of a rebel and a bit unconventional. How do we know this?

7. Angela asks Tycho to agree with her that her feeling of curiosity about Roland is natural and reasonable. How does Tycho respond?

8. Describe the conversation Tycho and Richard have about Africa and what that reveals about their distinct characters.

9. Describe Tycho's reaction when he and Angela encounter a group of men with motorcycles as they are on their way to the secret location.

10. Although Tycho's brother Richard appears only a few times in the novel, in Chapter 2, he is described in some detail. How is Richard's character portrayed?

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