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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 Meg tell the little farandolae?

2. What is the dance of the little farandolae doing?

3. What does Blajeny ask Mr. Jenkins?

4. What song does the group listen to in Yadah?

5. What does Meg figure out will fill the void of the Echthroi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Meg tell Jenkins about when she first kythes with him and how does he feel about it?

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

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

6. Why does Calvin tell Jenkins about the biologist and Calvin's bean plants?

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

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

9. What does Jenkins come to understand about Charles?

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

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

Progo asks Meg if there is anyone who makes her feel more like herself. Calvin does, she tells him.

1. What do you think Progo meant when he asked if someone made Meg feel more like herself?

2. Thinking about your best friend, how does your friendship make you feel more "yourself?"

3. How do you think a person learns who him/herself is?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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