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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Who give to Meg in Chapter 6?
(a) Her glasses.
(b) A secret map of Camazotz.
(c) A book of spells and wizardry.
(d) A Shakespearean sonnet.

2. How does Meg react when the Happy Medium shows her mother in the crystal ball?
(a) She has no reaction.
(b) She gloats because her mother is so beautiful.
(c) At first she cries, then resolves to find her father.
(d) She can't stop crying.

3. According to the Route Boy, what is in this most oriented city on the planet?
(a) An intelligence center that prevents crimes from ever happening,
(b) The largest shopping center in the universe.
(c) IT.
(d) A crime syndicate that rules the planets.

4. Just as Calvin tells Meg she has "dream-boat eyes," who appears from out of nowhere?
(a) Charles Wallace.
(b) Mrs. Whatsit.
(c) Mrs. Murry.
(d) Meg's father.

5. When Calvin says he's horrible in math, what does Mrs. Murry suggest he do?
(a) Give up math and focus on literature.
(b) Get help from Charles Wallace who's a genius.
(c) Get a good math tutor.
(d) Get help from Meg who's a math genius.

6. According to Mrs. Whatsit, how long has the Dark Thing been darkening the beauty of the earth?
(a) About one year.
(b) Less than one year.
(c) A couple of years.
(d) A good many years.

7. Who do Charles Wallace, Meg and Fortinbras meet at the house in the woods?
(a) Calvin O'Keefe.
(b) Mrs. Murry.
(c) A policeman.
(d) The school principal.

8. What does the Medium show everyone as proof that the Dark Thing can be overcome?
(a) A sky full of stars.
(b) The sun burning off the Dark Thing's haze.
(c) A world in which only daylight exists.
(d) A star fighting the Dark Thing and spreading its light.

9. When Charles Wallace, Meg, and Calvin enter town on Camazotz, what do they think is odd about the children?
(a) They aren't children but small adults.
(b) They hold skip ropes and balls but aren't play with them.
(c) They speak a strange language.
(d) They are all skipping rope and bouncing balls in rhythm.

10. Why does Meg initially not understand the explanation of tessering?
(a) Meg only thinks of space in three dimensions.
(b) Meg doesn't understand a concept of space.
(c) Meg only thinks of space in two dimensions.
(d) Meg doesn't want to understand tessering.

11. Seeing the picture of Meg's father, who does Calvin say he looks like?
(a) Sandy and Dennys.
(b) Mike Wallace.
(c) Meg.
(d) Charles Wallace.

12. What does Mrs. Whatsit say in Chapter 1 that makes Mrs. Murry's face turn white?
(a) She says that Mr. Murry is in the garden.
(b) She says that the universe is made up of evil.
(c) Good intentions won't make one happy.
(d) She says there is such a thing as a tesseract.

13. Why does Meg look at her mother with a mixture of admiration and resentment in Chapter 1?
(a) Her mother is a kind and beautiful woman, as well as a brilliant scientist.
(b) Her mother is beautiful and speaks fluent French.
(c) Her mother is pretty and every man wants to marry her.
(d) Her mother works at home and always looks fresh.

14. In what dimension do Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which travel?
(a) The fourth dimension.
(b) The infinite dimension.
(c) The fifth dimension.
(d) The tenth dimension.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How could Mrs. Who's manner of speech be described?

2. What does Mrs. Whatsit call Mrs. Murry that "one wouldn't ordinarily think of calling Mrs. Murry?"

3. What part of the tesseract were Meg's parents working on before her father disappeared?

4. How many children are bouncing balls out of rhythm in Camazotz?

5. What do the children see when they look into the Happy Medium's ball?

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