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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Mr. Murry puts Mrs. Who's glasses on?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) He complains that they are not his glasses.
(c) He reads a massive book in ten seconds.
(d) He gets out of the glass column.

2. Why won't the Mrs. W's help Mr. Murry tesser back to Camazotz?
(a) Because they are not good at tessering themselves.
(b) Because they somehow know he will not succeed.
(c) Because they're too tired to teach proper tessering.
(d) Because they instantly dislike Mr. Murry.

3. Why can't Charles Wallace taste any of the food in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) He has never had turkey before.
(b) He's ill but only discovers it when he eats the food.
(c) He has shut his mind completely to the Man with the Red Eyes.
(d) He's too scared to taste anything.

4. What sense do the Beasts not have that surprises Meg?
(a) Smell.
(b) Touch.
(c) Sight.
(d) Hearing.

5. What finally saves Mr. Murry from being absorbed by IT?
(a) Seeing Charles Wallace absorbed into IT.
(b) Seeing Meg and Calvin restores his faith.
(c) Meeting Mrs. Who.
(d) His superior intelligence.

6. Before seeing anyone new enter the Beasts' dining area in Chapter 12, Meg's heart "pounds with hope." Why?
(a) Because the Beasts have offered to go with her.
(b) Because her mother has suddenly appeared on Ixchel.
(c) Because she knows the Mrs. W's have arrived.
(d) Because she has convinced her father to reconsider.

7. How do the Beasts help Meg recover?
(a) They hypnotize her using positive thoughts.
(b) They make her feel safe and secure.
(c) They cleanse her through a series of hot baths.
(d) They give her wild herbs that cure her paralysis.

8. Why does the beast tell Meg she can't go to rescue her brother just yet?
(a) Because Mr. Murry and Calvin aren't well either.
(b) Because it's too dark outside to see anything.
(c) Because she has to wait for Mrs. Whatsit.
(d) Because she's not well enough.

9. When the Thing picks Meg up, how many of its arms does it use to cradle her?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Just one.

10. What do Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace see at the end of the room filled with machines in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) A platform with just a chair on it and nothing else.
(b) A platform with ballerinas dancing to music.
(c) A platform with a chair, and a man.
(d) A platform made to look like a boxing ring.

11. Meg and Calvin repeatedly question Charles Wallace on their way to Mr. Murry in Chapter 8. In response, what does he warn them he will do?
(a) Send them to a two-dimensional planet.
(b) Send them to IT.
(c) Put them to sleep.
(d) Send them to a special prison on Camazotz.

12. Mrs. Whatsit says that if the Happy Medium could always tell them what was going to happen, they would be just like the people of Camazotz because:
(a) They would eat very uninteresting food.
(b) They would skip rope and bounce balls.
(c) They would have to live on a dark planet.
(d) They would have no lives of their own.

13. In Chapter 8, Charles says everything on Camazotz is in order. Why?
(a) Because everybody rebels against tradition.
(b) Because there is no leader on the planet.
(c) Because everybody goes to a party everyday.
(d) Because everybody has learned to submit.

14. After she tessers with her father and Calvin out of Camazotz, what happens to Meg?
(a) She becomes temporarily paralyzed.
(b) She loses her eyesight.
(c) She learns a mysterious new language.
(d) She becomes an expert at tessering.

15. Why is Meg so cold in her paralysis?
(a) She didn't bring any warm clothing.
(b) She is lying on a snow-covered area.
(c) She has a circulation problem and easily gets cold.
(d) Because she tessered through the Black Thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Charles Wallace take Meg, Calvin and Mr. Murry in Chapter 9?

2. Charles Wallace pulls Meg and Calvin aside in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building to tell them what?

3. What are the Things in Chapter 10?

4. How does the man with strange eyes react to Meg's action toward Charles when Charles was looking into the strange man's eyes?

5. When Meg can speak in Chapter 10, she tells her father firmly, in a voice that she has never used with him before that they shouldn't have tessered. Why?

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