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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Meg finally joins Charles Wallace and Calvin in Chapter 4, what does she first notice about her surroundings?
(a) She's in a field with exotic animals.
(b) She's in a place that's identical to the one she left.
(c) She's in an ugly, neglected, and scary looking field.
(d) She's in a beautiful sunlit field on a fine spring day.

3. When the children and the ladies are about to tesser in Chapter 5, who goes first?
(a) Charles Wallace.
(b) Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which.
(c) Meg.
(d) Charles Wallace, Calvin and Meg.

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

5. What impresses the twins about Calvin more than Meg?
(a) His height.
(b) His appetite for stew and jell-o.
(c) His athletic record.
(d) His red hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Charles Wallace has been successfully hypnotized by the man with strange eyes, how does Meg react?

2. How did Mrs. Whatsit know where Charles Wallace lived?

3. Why does Charles Wallace insist they go and see Mrs. Whatsit in Chapter 2?

4. What does the Happy Medium live in?

5. When Meg enters the kitchen at the beginning of the book, who is already there?

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