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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Calvin call Charles Wallace in Chapter 2?
(a) Charlsie.
(b) Charles Wallace.
(c) Moron.
(d) Little one.

3. What is Meg's first impression of Camazotz upon arriving?
(a) There's something frightening about it.
(b) It is so welcoming that she wants to stay forever.
(c) It is so eerie she cannot imagine anything living there.
(d) It looks very much like earth.

4. Who do the children meet when they enter the haunted house in Chapter 2?
(a) Mrs. Whatsit.
(b) Mrs. Who.
(c) Mr. Jenkins.
(d) Mrs. Murry.

5. A boy on his paper route stops and asks Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace what they're doing on the street when only who is allowed out?
(a) Police.
(b) Delivery people.
(c) Route Boys.
(d) Employees of the newspaper company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Meg asks her mother to tell her more about the tesseract in Chapter 3, but what does Mrs. Murry tell her instead?

2. Why does Meg look at her mother with a mixture of admiration and resentment in Chapter 1?

3. How does Meg react when the Happy Medium shows her mother in the crystal ball?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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