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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. How long has Charles been in school?

2. What does Meg want Louise to do?

3. Why did Meg understand Charles thinking he saw dragons when she saw the creature?

4. What do Meg and Charles wonder about when they return to the house?

5. What kind of sound does Louise make around the three Jenkinses?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the rest of the Murry family when Meg and Charles talk at the beginning of the book?

2. What do the three Jenkinses say to Meg's inquiry about Charles and Louise?

3. What happens when Meg sees Mr. Jenkins in the garden?

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

5. What does Mrs. Murry say to Meg about Charles' problems at school?

6. What does Meg tell her mother Charles thinks is wrong with him?

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

8. How does Meg feel about Mr. Jenkins, why does she go to see him and what happened when she did?

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

10. Whom does Blajeny introduce to the children and what is that person?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Calvin wonders if Charles would be better off at a school in the city where the students are used to greater diversity.

1. Do you think Charles would be better off in a larger school? Why or why not?

2. What do you think Calvin means by greater diversity?

3. If you attend a large school explain what you like or dislike about it. If you came from a smaller school explain the same.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 3, the children meet Blajeny and the cherubim, Proginoskes. These fantastical characters, juxtaposed with the everyday normality of making cocoa at the Murry house, help lend the story characteristics of magic realism.

1. From this statement what do you think magic realism means?

2. Why do you think an author would write about ordinary events, such as making cocoa, in a book in which much that takes place is not real?

3. Did the children meeting Proginoskes seem as real to you as drinking cocoa? Why or why not?

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