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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will Sporos become a sea tree?

2. What makes Meg decide to be nicer towards Mr. Jenkins?

3. What does Blajeny tell Meg and the others about Charles?

4. Why does Jenkins say he'll come with the others?

5. What does Meg feel when she reaches out to Mr. Jenkins?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Meg end up when she leaves the mitochondria and what is there?

2. What is deepening, how does it feel and why do some avoid it?

3. What does Meg tell Jenkins about when she first kythes with him and how does he feel about it?

4. What does the inside of the mitochondria look and feel like?

5. How do Calvin, Meg and Jenkins get the little farandolae to deepen?

6. What does Sporos do when the Echthroi takes over Mr. Jenkins?

7. What does Jenkins feel he lacks and how do he and Meg resolve their differences?

8. What are the little farandolae doing in the and what is the result?

9. What does Meg do after Progo Xes himself?

10. What does Jenkins come to understand about Charles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

L'Engle frequently repeats the concept that both size and distance are irrelevant and that life is united on some other, non-physical level. Many philosophers and religions have espoused this theory, but L'Engle's story unites spiritual philosophy with modern science in support of this belief.

1. What do you think about the unity of life? Use examples from the book and your life to support your answer.

2. Have you ever had an experience that demonstrates the unity of life? If not write about a situation that might prove it, if you have describe your experience.

3. Choose a houseplant or yard plant and talk to it for a week. Describe what happens.

Essay Topic 2

In this climactic chapter, the author concludes her morality tale by advancing the notion that struggling with evil is not an effective way of overcoming it. As she emphasizes in each of the Time Quartet books, love is the strongest force in the universe, and only through love can evil be vanquished.

1. Why do you think the author suggests that struggling with evil is not the best way to deal with it?

2. Do you think love can overcome evil? Why or why not?

3. Do you think you could love something as evil as the Echthroi like Meg did? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Meg eyes Charles Wallace. His clothes are torn, and he sports a fresh bruise under his left eye. Meg questions him about this latest beating. Charles Wallace has only been in school for two months, but every week he comes home with fresh injuries.

1. There always seems to be several children in school who are singled out for being bullied. Why do you think this happens? Use examples from the book and from your own life to support your answer.

2. If you saw a child being bullied and beaten by others, what would you do? Why would you do it?

3. Do you think it is the students', the teachers or the principal's job or all three, to help a student who is being bullied? Why?

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