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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) A Shakespearean sonnet.
(b) A book of spells and wizardry.
(c) Her glasses.
(d) A secret map of Camazotz.

2. How did Mrs. Whatsit know where Charles Wallace lived?
(a) She simply guessed and was correct.
(b) She looked up the directions on a map.
(c) By the smell.
(d) By its unique style.

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

4. When the kids return home in Chapter 3, what is Mrs. Murry doing in her lab?
(a) Heating a stew with bright red liquid.
(b) Conducting an experiment and cooking a stew.
(c) On the phone with the government.
(d) Dissecting an animal for an experiment.

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

6. Charles Wallace and Mrs. Murry offer food to Mrs. Whatsit. She expresses a fondness for what?
(a) Russian caviar.
(b) Liverwurst.
(c) Marshmallows and cocoa.
(d) Bread and jam.

7. What did Mrs. Whatsit not mean to tell the children about being a star?
(a) That she didn't like it at all.
(b) That she loved it.
(c) That it's better being who she is now.
(d) That it was hard work.

8. After their dinner with Calvin, what does Mrs. Murry admit to Meg?
(a) She misses Meg's father's great cooking.
(b) She is still in love with Meg's father.
(c) Calvin has really bad manners.
(d) She wishes that Meg's father were at the dinner table.

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

10. What happens in Chapter 4 when Meg suddenly finds herself alone in darkness and has no sense of where she is?
(a) She's very sleepy and awakens in the darkness.
(b) Strange people appear before her.
(c) She's tired and wishes she could go back to sleep.
(d) She can't feel her body or anything around her.

11. How old does Mrs. Whatsit say she is?
(a) She can't remember she's so old.
(b) About one hundred years old.
(c) Twenty years old because she was born on Leap Year.
(d) 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.

12. How does Mrs. Murry explain that Charles Wallace may look like other people but is different?
(a) It isn't physical, it's in essence.
(b) He's really good at hiding how different he is.
(c) He possesses magical powers.
(d) One leg is shorter than the other.

13. What is the weather like the night Mrs. Whatsit appeared at the Murry house?
(a) Sunny and breezy.
(b) Overcast, about to rain.
(c) Dark and stormy.
(d) Rainy and hailing.

14. In Chapter 3, why does Calvin say Meg is so lucky?
(a) Because her mother is pretty and is a great cook.
(b) Because her mother knows her name.
(c) She lives in a nice house and has a wonderful loving family.
(d) Because she has a massive house with many rooms.

15. Meg asks her mother to tell her more about the tesseract in Chapter 3, but what does Mrs. Murry tell her instead?
(a) Go for a walk with Calvin.
(b) Walk to the library and research it herself.
(c) To forget about it; it was nothing after all.
(d) Walk to the supermarket and pick up some milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Whatsit tell Meg not to cry after seeing the dark shadow?

2. What does Mrs. Whatsit give to Charles Wallace before they part ways in Chapter 6?

3. What worries Charles Wallace about going to school next year?

4. What does Calvin say to Meg on their way to her house in Chapter 3?

5. As stated in Chapter 5, how will the group travel?

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