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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon after Meg is reunited with her father in Chapter 9, what, to her horror, does she realize about him?
(a) That he cannot hear her.
(b) That her father is near death.
(c) That he cannot see.
(d) That it's not her father.

2. Why is Mr. Murry unsure how long he was imprisoned on Camazotz?
(a) Because time there is inverted.
(b) Because Camazotz rotates backwards on its axis.
(c) Because no one uses clocks or calendars there.
(d) Because his captors played mind games with him.

3. Why can't Charles Wallace taste any of the food in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) He has never had turkey before.
(b) He's ill but only discovers it when he eats the food.
(c) He has shut his mind completely to the Man with the Red Eyes.
(d) He's too scared to taste anything.

4. What finally saves Mr. Murry from being absorbed by IT?
(a) Seeing Charles Wallace absorbed into IT.
(b) His superior intelligence.
(c) Meeting Mrs. Who.
(d) Seeing Meg and Calvin restores his faith.

5. Meg and Charles Wallace refuse to let Calvin go into the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building by himself. Why?
(a) Because Mrs. Whatsit said they must always be together.
(b) Charles Wallace is suspicious and thinks Calvin might be up to something.
(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.

6. Aside from Mrs. Whatsit, who else is certain that Meg will not encounter a fatal danger when she goes to rescue Charles Wallace?
(a) Mr. Murry.
(b) Aunt Beast.
(c) Calvin.
(d) The Happy Medium.

7. What is Charles Wallace's interesting explanation for the lack of conflict on Camazotz?
(a) Everyone is allowed to express their own opinions.
(b) Everyone bounces balls to the exactly the same rhythm.
(c) Everyone believes that there is no other place than Camazotz.
(d) Individualism has been done away with.

8. What happens when Mr. Murry puts Mrs. Who's glasses on?
(a) He complains that they are not his glasses.
(b) Nothing happens.
(c) He gets out of the glass column.
(d) He reads a massive book in ten seconds.

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

10. Before the children reach Mr. Murry in Chapter 8, who does Charles Wallace show them?
(a) The little boy who couldn't bounce his ball in rhythm.
(b) A woman with red eyes.
(c) Camazotz deviants who will soon be put to sleep.
(d) The wife of the Premiere Coordinator.

11. Aunt Beast tells Meg that in the fight against the Black Thing, the following helps the Beasts:
(a) Good, the stars, light, and love.
(b) Rocks, wood planks and fire.
(c) Knives, swords, bows and arrows.
(d) Deep negative thoughts.

12. Before seeing anyone new enter the Beasts' dining area in Chapter 12, Meg's heart "pounds with hope." Why?
(a) Because the Beasts have offered to go with her.
(b) Because she knows the Mrs. W's have arrived.
(c) Because she has convinced her father to reconsider.
(d) Because her mother has suddenly appeared on Ixchel.

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

14. How do the Beasts help Meg recover?
(a) They hypnotize her using positive thoughts.
(b) They cleanse her through a series of hot baths.
(c) They make her feel safe and secure.
(d) They give her wild herbs that cure her paralysis.

15. How does the man with strange eyes react to Meg's action toward Charles when Charles was looking into the strange man's eyes?
(a) He becomes angry, and impatient.
(b) He smiles in admiration of her strength.
(c) He has no reaction.
(d) He gets off his stage and jumps onto Meg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Despite escaping IT with her father, why does Meg feel things have gotten worse and worse?

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

4. Where does Charles Wallace take Meg, Calvin and Mr. Murry in Chapter 9?

5. What are the Things in Chapter 10?

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