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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Calvin want to call from the Murry home?
(a) His mother.
(b) One of his friends.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

2. When Charles focuses on the strange man's eyes in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building, why does Meg jump on her younger brother with all her might?
(a) She is sick and tired of Charles Wallace's antics.
(b) She sees that her brother is getting hypnotized.
(c) She wants to try jumping the way her twin brothers do.
(d) She wants to look into the man's red eyes.

3. What does Calvin do in Chapter 4 that Mrs. Whatsit tells him never to do in her presence?
(a) He turns his back on her.
(b) He spits.
(c) He falls to his knees.
(d) He bows deeply and kisses her hand.

4. After seeing the Happy Medium's proof that the Dark Thing can be overcome, what does Charles Wallace discover about Mrs. Whatsit?
(a) That she was once a star that fought the Dark Thing.
(b) That she loves stars but was previously afraid of them.
(c) That she wished she were a star but never could be.
(d) That she fears combatting the Dark Thing.

5. After their dinner with Calvin, what does Mrs. Murry admit to Meg?
(a) She is still in love with Meg's father.
(b) Calvin has really bad manners.
(c) She wishes that Meg's father were at the dinner table.
(d) She misses Meg's father's great cooking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Seeing the picture of Meg's father, who does Calvin say he looks like?

2. When Charles Wallace, Meg, and Calvin enter town on Camazotz, what do they think is odd about the children?

3. How does the author describe Calvin O'Keefe when Meg and Charles Wallace first meet him?

4. When Mrs. Whatsit rests on a plateau in Chapter 4, what does she show the children?

5. While in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building, Meg asks for food because she's hungry. What do four men in smocks arrive with moments later?

(see the answer key)

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