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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Meg and Calvin repeatedly question Charles Wallace on their way to Mr. Murry in Chapter 8. In response, what does he warn them he will do?
(a) Put them to sleep.
(b) Send them to a two-dimensional planet.
(c) Send them to a special prison on Camazotz.
(d) Send them to IT.

2. When Charles focuses on the strange man's eyes in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building, why does Meg jump on her younger brother with all her might?
(a) She is sick and tired of Charles Wallace's antics.
(b) She sees that her brother is getting hypnotized.
(c) She wants to try jumping the way her twin brothers do.
(d) She wants to look into the man's red eyes.

3. What does Charles Wallace tell Meg in Chapter 9 that she must do in order to get to her father?
(a) Get a sledge hammer to break the column.
(b) Learn how to rearrange molecules in walls.
(c) Go into IT.
(d) She can't do anything, she should just give up.

4. Why can't Meg hug Mrs. Whatsit when she sees her again in Chapter 12?
(a) Because Mrs. Whatsit hasn't completely materialized.
(b) Because Mrs. Whatsit is now so fat Meg can't wrap her arms around the old lady.
(c) Because Mrs. Whatsit is covered in a mist from the Black Thing.
(d) Mrs. Whatsit lost her arms in her most recent fight against the Black Thing.

5. What does the face of the strange man who communicates with Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building look like?
(a) He has a very sweet face that's hard to describe.
(b) He has blue eyes that remind Meg of her father.
(c) His eyes are bright with a reddish glow.
(d) He has no face.

6. Why does one of the Beasts insist that Meg gets treated promptly?
(a) Because the coldness of the Black Thing causes flu.
(b) Because the coldness of the Black Thing burns.
(c) Because she's experiencing nausea.
(d) Because the Black Thing has paralzyed her brain.

7. Why does Mr. Murry hand Mrs. Who's glasses back to Meg in Chapter 11?
(a) They are ugly and don't look nice on him.
(b) They didn't work as Mrs. Who said they would.
(c) Their virtue has gone and they are now only glass.
(d) He doesn't believe in Mrs. Who, so he feels no need to keep them.

8. Meg and Charles Wallace refuse to let Calvin go into the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building by himself. Why?
(a) Charles Wallace is suspicious and thinks Calvin might be up to something.
(b) Because Mrs. Whatsit said they must always be together.
(c) Because Meg is scared of being alone with Charles Wallace.
(d) Meg thinks that Calvin has a bad sense of direction and will exit the wrong way.

9. In Chapter 8, Charles says everything on Camazotz is in order. Why?
(a) Because everybody has learned to submit.
(b) Because everybody rebels against tradition.
(c) Because there is no leader on the planet.
(d) Because everybody goes to a party everyday.

10. Charles Wallace takes Meg and Calvin to a transparent column. Who is in that column?
(a) Meg's brothers, Sandy and Dennys.
(b) Meg's father, Mr. Murry.
(c) Meg's mother, Mrs. Murry.
(d) Calvin's mother.

11. What is it that Meg has but IT does not have?
(a) The ability to remember.
(b) The ability to work math.
(c) The ability to love.
(d) The ability to reason.

12. What do Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace see at the end of the room filled with machines in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) A platform with a chair, and a man.
(b) A platform with just a chair on it and nothing else.
(c) A platform made to look like a boxing ring.
(d) A platform with ballerinas dancing to music.

13. When one of the Things scoops Meg up, what does it tell Mr. Murry it's doing?
(a) Curing her paralysis.
(b) Taking the child.
(c) Cradling her to sing her lullabies.
(d) Adopting Meg.

14. How does Calvin nearly break Charles Wallace out of his spell in Chapter 9?
(a) He punches Charles Wallace in the gut.
(b) He recites a love sonnet to Charles Wallace.
(c) He likens Charles to Ariel in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
(d) He compares Charles Wallace to Jesus.

15. What gift does Mrs. Whatsit give to Meg before she leaves on her rescue mission at the end of the novel?
(a) A weatherproof cape.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Meg is about to leave on her rescue mission, why does she ask her father for forgiveness?

2. What is the name of the Beasts' planet?

3. What does Meg do when Charles Wallace doesn't let her inside the object containing her father?

4. While in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building, Meg asks for food because she's hungry. What do four men in smocks arrive with moments later?

5. What is the reminder Mrs. Whatsit says about Camazotz that pains Meg?

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