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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dennys believe that Charles Wallace will have a hard time in school next year?
(a) Because people are used to thinking he's dumb.
(b) Charles Wallace has two names instead of one.
(c) Charles Wallace can walk but cannot talk.
(d) Because Charles Wallace is so handsome.

2. In Chapter 5, when does Mrs. Whatsit say the children will return home?
(a) With any luck, in five weeks.
(b) About five minutes before they left.
(c) In a few days unless something goes wrong.
(d) Unless something goes wrong, in one year.

3. What do the children see when they look into the Happy Medium's ball?
(a) They see Uriel not their planet.
(b) They see their planet covered with the Dark Thing.
(c) They see their planet as it is in photographs.
(d) They see only the oceans.

4. The dog growls at the lab door in Chapter 1, and Mrs. Murry goes to see who's there. When she returns, who does she bring inside?
(a) Mrs. Whatsit.
(b) Mrs. Buncombe.
(c) The school principal.
(d) The Tramp.

5. What is the individual that the children meet in the haunted house in Chapter 2 wearing and doing?
(a) She's wearing a witch's costume and is sewing.
(b) She's wearing sunglasses and is knitting.
(c) She's wearing a black suit and is reading a book.
(d) She's wearing thick glasses and is sewing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Murry explain that Charles Wallace may look like other people but is different?

2. What happens in Chapter 4 when Meg suddenly finds herself alone in darkness and has no sense of where she is?

3. Why is school "all wrong" for Meg in Chapter 1?

4. When the children and the ladies arrive at their new destination in Chapter 5, what does Mrs. Whatsit look like?

5. What does school principal Jenkins call Meg when he scolds her in his office?

(see the answer key)

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