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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. What is the name of the dolphin-like creature that Harcels calls?

2. At the end of Chapter 4, how many dugout canoes come across the water?

3. Who is supposed to erect the gallows for Zylle?

4. How many of David's children died of diphtheria in one week?

5. What step do the Murry children always avoid when coming up or down the attic stairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Madoc?

2. What visions does Brandon see when he calls on God to keep Zylle safe during the birthing process?

3. In Chapter 4, what cuts across the beauty of the flight and how does it affect Charles Wallace?

4. What is kything?

5. In Chapter 1, what are Charles Wallace and his father constructing?

6. In Chapter 3 when Charles Wallace arrives, what are people doing near the dwelling by the lake?

7. What change does Charles Wallace make when he is Within Harcels?

8. What information does Sandys find for Meg?

9. What does Meg see and sense when she returns to kything with Charles Wallace in Chapter 3?

10. How does Gaudior save Charles Wallace when they are attacked in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the book and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 2

Madoc and Gwydyr have different ambitions in life. What do Madoc and Gwydyr want from life? How do their ambitions cause philosophical and physical confrontations?

Essay Topic 3

Mrs. O’Keefe gives Charles Wallace a charge. What charge does she give him? How is the charge a fight for good against evil?

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