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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 did Calvin do with his second and third bean seed?

2. What do Calvin and Meg do when the little farandolae won't listen to them?

3. What does Progo tell Meg she must do?

4. When will Sporos become a sea tree?

5. What did Calvin do with his first bean seed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the group listen to in the mitochondria?

2. How do Calvin, Meg and Jenkins get the little farandolae to deepen?

3. What does Meg hear the Echthros-Jenkins say to the dancing farandolae?

4. What is deepening, how does it feel and why do some avoid it?

5. What does Progo tell Meg about the farandolae and how they live and move?

6. What was the experiment Calvin told Meg about?

7. What does Meg do when the Echthroi takes over Mr. Jenkins?

8. Where does Meg end up when she leaves the mitochondria and what is there?

9. What does Jenkins come to understand about Charles?

10. What does Progo tell Meg about why she was in pain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

L'Engle frequently repeats the concept that both size and distance are irrelevant and that life is united on some other, non-physical level. Many philosophers and religions have espoused this theory, but L'Engle's story unites spiritual philosophy with modern science in support of this belief.

1. What do you think about the unity of life? Use examples from the book and your life to support your answer.

2. Have you ever had an experience that demonstrates the unity of life? If not write about a situation that might prove it, if you have describe your experience.

3. Choose a houseplant or yard plant and talk to it for a week. Describe what happens.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Meg begs Sporos to Deepen, saying that it is their only chance of survival. Sporos turns to Senex, the adult fara that is Sporos' parent, and he decides to Deepen. For Sporos to deepen means to mature. The author is saying we can't stay children forever.

1. What are the pros and cons to staying a child forever?

2. How would you say you and your parent or guardian is different because of age?

3. What do you see yourself doing at the age of 30? Do you look forward to being that age?

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