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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 wants to try jumping the way her twin brothers do.
(b) She sees that her brother is getting hypnotized.
(c) She wants to look into the man's red eyes.
(d) She is sick and tired of Charles Wallace's antics.

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

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

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

5. Why does Meg realize she's the only one who can rescue Charles Wallace?
(a) She's the closest in age to him.
(b) She has memorized the streets and buildings on Camazotz.
(c) They know and understand each other best.
(d) She's already professional at tessering.

6. When Meg is reunited with her father at the Beasts' dining table, why does she feel distant from him?
(a) He doesn't show much interest in her recovery.
(b) He seems more determined to get back to his wife.
(c) He's not properly concerned about Charles Wallace.
(d) He's not sweet and soft nor as tall as the Beasts.

7. When Meg can speak in Chapter 10, she tells her father firmly, in a voice that she has never used with him before that they shouldn't have tessered. Why?
(a) Because he's not sure where they are now.
(b) Because now she realizes that he's not so smart.
(c) Because they should have just used a plane.
(d) Because she's tired of tessering.

8. 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?
(a) Macaroni and cheese.
(b) Something that smells like a roasted pig.
(c) Cheeseburgers and fries.
(d) A table and something that smelled like turkey.

9. 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) Knives, swords, bows and arrows.
(c) Rocks, wood planks and fire.
(d) Deep negative thoughts.

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

11. At one point in Chapter 8, Charles Wallace leads Calvin and Meg through a wall by raising his hand. What exactly did he do to get through a solid wall?
(a) He rearranged the atoms in the wall.
(b) He performed magic and made the wall disappear.
(c) His supernatural strengths crushed the wall.
(d) The wall was a figment of Meg's and Calvin's imagination.

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

13. 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 lock of her mother's hair.
(c) Mrs. Who's glasses.
(d) A family photograph.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After she tessers with her father and Calvin out of Camazotz, what happens to Meg?

3. What eventually gets Meg through the object containing her father and able to get to him?

4. What does Charles Wallace tell Meg and Calvin to do in front of the strange man in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?

5. Charles Wallace pulls Meg and Calvin aside in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building to tell them what?

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