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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. How did Mrs. Whatsit know where Charles Wallace lived?
(a) By the smell.
(b) She simply guessed and was correct.
(c) By its unique style.
(d) She looked up the directions on a map.

2. In Chapter 5, when does Mrs. Whatsit say the children will return home?
(a) With any luck, in five weeks.
(b) Unless something goes wrong, in one year.
(c) In a few days unless something goes wrong.
(d) About five minutes before they left.

3. What is the weather like the night Mrs. Whatsit appeared at the Murry house?
(a) Overcast, about to rain.
(b) Sunny and breezy.
(c) Rainy and hailing.
(d) Dark and stormy.

4. Why does Calvin come to the house in Chapter 2?
(a) Because he's homeless and looking for shelter.
(b) Because he thought it would be neat to live on his own.
(c) Because he's avoiding his family.
(d) Because his family kicked him out of their house.

5. What does the Medium show everyone as proof that the Dark Thing can be overcome?
(a) A sky full of stars.
(b) The sun burning off the Dark Thing's haze.
(c) A world in which only daylight exists.
(d) A star fighting the Dark Thing and spreading its light.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the children meet when they enter the haunted house in Chapter 2?

2. What does the Happy Medium first show in her crystal ball?

3. How does Mrs. Murry explain that Charles Wallace may look like other people but is different?

4. Why does Mrs. Whatsit tell Meg not to cry after seeing the dark shadow?

5. According to Mrs. Whatsit, how long has the Dark Thing been darkening the beauty of the earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the image of Calvin's mother make the Happy Medium react in a negative way?

2. Do you think Meg reacts too strongly to Charles' and Mrs. Who's talk about her father in Chapter 2?

3. Describe the dark shadow's power over the children after they see it.

4. When Meg and Calvin talk about Meg's missing father, at one point she says she wishes she were a different person because she hates herself. Do you think she wishes she were more like her mother?

5. Do you think the principal acts professionally in his office when he scolds Meg and suggests that her father won't return?

6. How would you define the tesseract?

7. What is going on as the story begins?

8. When the Happy Medium shows Meg her mother, she reacts with anger. Why might this reaction be a good thing this time?

9. Why is Meg so perturbed that Charles Wallace and Mrs. Murry are so quick to welcome Mrs. Whatsit into their home?

10. How would you explain the reason(s) for Meg's anger?

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