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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Family Matters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tycho counts the hours until _____.
(a) He will see Angela again.
(b) He can leave home for good.
(c) He has to go to school.
(d) He has to go to work.

2. 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 birthday.
(c) It is her baby's birthday.
(d) It is her second wedding anniversary.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Angela has an idea of what she and Tycho can do for the day in Chapter 3. What does she propose?

2. Africa changes her story in the second phone call. What does she say?

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

4. What is Richard's reaction to the news that Africa is coming home?

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

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