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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. Who makes Meg feel the least like herself?

2. What does Jenkins One say about Charles?

3. What does Proginoskes tell Meg they have to find out?

4. What does the Mother call Charles' suspicions?

5. Progo says love is not what you feel; it is __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Meg notice about Charles' physical condition and what does he tell her?

2. What is Calvin's assignment?

3. What did Progo do as a student namer and what is a namer?

4. Where does Progo decide to take Meg to show her what the Echthroi are and why?

5. What does Progo say is how the Echthroi create the comic rips?

6. What does Blajeny want with the children and why?

7. What does Charles say to Meg about mitochondria and farandolae?

8. What happens when Charles and Meg get to the garden and there are no dragons?

9. Where do Meg and Progo go after she has breakfast, who do they meet first and what does he say to them?

10. What does Progo tell Meg the morning after she met him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Blajeny explains that some things can only be understood with one's heart or intuition, not with one's logical mind.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your opinion.

2. Explain a situation you handled based on intuition or a problem you solved.

3. Do you think problem solving works best intuitively or logically? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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