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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tycho confides to Angela that when he was younger he had a reputation as ____.
(a) Subnormal.
(b) Too mature.
(c) Shy.
(d) Crazy.

3. What motivates Angela to search for her father?
(a) She senses that her mother wants to reunite with her father.
(b) She senses her mother is not telling her the whole truth.
(c) She wants to find out for sure if her father is dead.
(d) She wants to ask him for financial help for her and her mother.

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

5. How is the man Angela believes to be her father described in Chapter 5?
(a) A gentle person.
(b) Well-groomed but unattractive.
(c) A rich, successful, well-dressed businessman.
(d) Happy-go-lucky.

6. What is the purpose of the early-morning phone call in Chapter 2?
(a) Angela wants Tycho to help her find her father.
(b) Angela wants to tell Tycho about her conversation with her mother.
(c) Africa has had an argument with her husband and wants her parents to call the police.
(d) Africa has had an argument with her husband and wants her parents to come and get her.

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

8. Chapter 8 makes clear that Tycho has another reason for responding to Angela's plan as he does. What is the other reason?
(a) He thinks Angela's father is self-absorbed.
(b) He thinks Robin will be upset with him for helping Angela.
(c) He thinks Dido will be upset with him for helping Angela.
(d) He is afraid Angela's father will represent competition for her attention and affections.

9. Tycho says people avoided him when he was younger because ___.
(a) Richard spread lies about him.
(b) His mother is mean.
(c) They were afraid he would be rude to them.
(d) His father is disabled.

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

11. Angela says she has also seen her father another time. Where?
(a) Walking on the street with a young woman.
(b) Walking on the street with his wife.
(c) At the library.
(d) In his office.

12. Who drives the car in Chapter 8?
(a) Jason.
(b) Richard.
(c) Tycho.
(d) Angela.

13. Angela looks to Tycho to affirm that her curiosity about her father is natural. How does he respond?
(a) Tycho says he doesn't understand why Angela doesn't just leave the past in the past.
(b) Tycho says Angela is being obsessive.
(c) Tycho says that giving in to natural curiosity doesn't always bring about hoped-for results.
(d) Tycho says natural curiosity should be explored.

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

15. What philosophical idea does Tycho discuss with Angela?
(a) That the world is only an idea.
(b) That the earth revolves around the sun.
(c) That the world is symmetrical.
(d) That truth is only an idea.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Angela and Tycho are leaving the house, his mother reminds him to buy a present for Africa. Why?

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. How does Tycho know that Angela's explanation about the two men who came out of the building is a lie?

5. The morning after the middle-of-the-night phone call, why does Richard go into Tycho's room?

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