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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prompted Calvin to go to the haunted house?
(a) Someone told Calvin that he would find a treasure there.
(b) A school assignment.
(c) A compulsion that he simply needed to go there.
(d) He got lost on his way home.

2. How does the author describe Calvin O'Keefe when Meg and Charles Wallace first meet him?
(a) Tall and blond.
(b) Short with black hair and blue eyes.
(c) Tall, with orange hair, freckles, and blue eyes.
(d) Tall, with black hair, pale skin and blue eyes.

3. Why does Calvin come to the house in Chapter 2?
(a) Because he's homeless and looking for shelter.
(b) Because he's avoiding his family.
(c) Because he thought it would be neat to live on his own.
(d) Because his family kicked him out of their house.

4. How could Mrs. Who's manner of speech be described?
(a) She speaks in quotes then forgets what she has said.
(b) She speaks in quotes, sometimes in other languages.
(c) She lisps very heavily.
(d) She can only speak in Shakespearan sonnet form.

5. Why is school "all wrong" for Meg in Chapter 1?
(a) The classes are too easy and boring for Meg.
(b) She's been dropped to the lowest section in her grade.
(c) No boys like Meg.
(d) The school uniforms are not fashionable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dennys believe that Charles Wallace will have a hard time in school next year?

2. Why does Charles Wallace agree to take Fortinbras with them into the woods?

3. Who was Charles Wallace with when he discovered where Mrs. Whatsit and her friends lived?

4. Charles Wallace and Mrs. Murry offer food to Mrs. Whatsit. She expresses a fondness for what?

5. When Meg first sees Mrs. Whatsit in Chapter 1, how is she dressed?

(see the answer key)

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