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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the man with strange eyes in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building try to control the children's minds?
(a) He tries to befriend Meg by telling her she's beautiful.
(b) He talks about basketball to Calvin.
(c) He recites multiplication tables.
(d) He sings children's songs.

2. What does Meg give her father in Chapter 9 when she realizes what is wrong with him upon their being reunited?
(a) Some food.
(b) A family photograph.
(c) Mrs. Who's glasses.
(d) A lock of her mother's hair.

3. Why does Meg conclude in Chapter 10 that her father isn't very good at tessering?
(a) They are still on Camazotz.
(b) He thinks he is at home.
(c) They transport to the planet of Uriel.
(d) He has no idea where they are now.

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

5. 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.

6. What sense do the Beasts not have that surprises Meg?
(a) Smell.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Touch.
(d) Sight.

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

8. In Chapter 11, when Mr. Murry demands the Beasts put Meg down, who do they ask to speak with?
(a) Mrs. Murry.
(b) IT.
(c) Meg.
(d) Calvin.

9. 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 skip rope and bounce balls.
(c) They would have no lives of their own.
(d) They would eat very uninteresting food.

10. Once Charles Wallace has been successfully hypnotized by the man with strange eyes, how does Meg react?
(a) She cries and passes out.
(b) She sits and watches him become someone else.
(c) She considers following her brother in hypnosis.
(d) She smashes Charles Wallace's plate on the floor.

11. Although Charles Wallace looks the same after being hypnotized, he acts as if someone has possessed him. How does Meg know this?
(a) His eyes turn cold and strange.
(b) He calls her Mary.
(c) He calls her Margaret.
(d) He calls her Mother.

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

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

14. 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) Send them to IT.
(b) Send them to a two-dimensional planet.
(c) Send them to a special prison on Camazotz.
(d) Put them to sleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Thing picks Meg up, how many of its arms does it use to cradle her?

2. What does the face of the strange man who communicates with Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building look like?

3. Why does the beast tell Meg she can't go to rescue her brother just yet?

4. Meg and Charles Wallace refuse to let Calvin go into the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building by himself. Why?

5. Soon after Meg is reunited with her father in Chapter 9, what, to her horror, does she realize about him?

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