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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 does Blajeny ask Mr. Jenkins?

2. Why does the song falter?

3. What does Progo tell Meg to do once she is out of danger?

4. What does Meg finally realize about her hate of Mr. Jenkins?

5. Why can't Progo kythe with Jenkins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Progo tell Meg is the cause of Charles' illness?

2. What does Sporos do when the Echthroi takes over Mr. Jenkins?

3. What happens to Mr. Jenkins in the schoolyard after he faints?

4. What does Mr. Jenkins think is happening to him and what does Blajeny say is the truth?

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

6. What did Progo say about Sporos and the Echthroi?

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

8. What does the inside of the mitochondria look and feel like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Metron Arison symbolically portrays the author's message that what happens in the microcosm affects the macrocosm.

1. What do you think this means, the microcosm affects the macrocosm?

2. Describe a situation in your life that would demonstrate this principle.

3. Describe a situation in the world that would demonstrate this principle.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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