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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) His eyes are bright with a reddish glow.
(b) He has a very sweet face that's hard to describe.
(c) He has no face.
(d) He has blue eyes that remind Meg of her father.

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

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

4. 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 wants to try jumping the way her twin brothers do.
(c) She sees that her brother is getting hypnotized.
(d) She wants to look into the man's red eyes.

5. What does the Man with Red Eyes say when Calvin accuses him of hypnotizing Charles Wallace?
(a) The Man with Red Eyes says nothing at all.
(b) He completely agrees Charles is hypnotized.
(c) He thinks hypnotized is a primitive way of describing it.
(d) He calls Charles's state of mind sweet and kind.

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

7. Mrs. Whatsit says that if the Happy Medium could always tell them what was going to happen, they would be just like the people of Camazotz because:
(a) They would have to live on a dark planet.
(b) They would eat very uninteresting food.
(c) They would skip rope and bounce balls.
(d) They would have no lives of their own.

8. How has Mr. Murry's appearance changed when the children see him in Chapter 9?
(a) He has long hair, a beard, and no glasses.
(b) He is overweight and his head is shaved.
(c) Not at all.
(d) He is skinnier than Meg and has shrunk in height.

9. 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) The Happy Medium.
(c) Calvin.
(d) Aunt Beast.

10. Mrs. Whatsit says the reason that Mr. Murry is bad at tessering is:
(a) He treats it like an everyday event.
(b) He always does it with his eyes closed.
(c) That he still treats it like he's working with a machine.
(d) He lacks good coordination.

11. Why is Mr. Murry able to keep from being absorbed by IT?
(a) His biological makeup makes it difficult for IT to absorb.
(b) He is smarter than IT.
(c) Mr. Murry refuses and resists, which IT is unused to.
(d) He fools IT by dressing like the man with Red Eyes.

12. When the Thing picks Meg up, how many of its arms does it use to cradle her?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Just one.
(d) Four.

13. What is IT?
(a) An ancient god.
(b) A brain.
(c) A very old woman.
(d) A robot.

14. Where does Charles Wallace take Meg, Calvin and Mr. Murry in Chapter 9?
(a) To see IT.
(b) To a secret hiding place.
(c) To a dungeon.
(d) To a room where they meet the man with Red Eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Aunt Beast tells Meg that in the fight against the Black Thing, the following helps the Beasts:

2. Before the children reach Mr. Murry in Chapter 8, who does Charles Wallace show them?

3. What does Meg give her father in Chapter 9 when she realizes what is wrong with him upon their being reunited?

4. How did Mr. Murry end up on Camazotz?

5. Charles does something to the man with strange eyes that he learned from his older twin brothers. What does he do?

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