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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes up with the idea for the name "Aunt Beast"?
(a) Meg.
(b) One of the other beasts.
(c) The beast.
(d) Mr. Murry.

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

3. 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) Their virtue has gone and they are now only glass.
(c) He doesn't believe in Mrs. Who, so he feels no need to keep them.
(d) They didn't work as Mrs. Who said they would.

4. When the Man with the Red Eyes decides to let Meg see her father, who does he assign to take her?
(a) Himself.
(b) Calvin.
(c) Charles Wallace.
(d) One of his men.

5. How does Charles Wallace react to Meg rushing to the object containing their father in Chapter 9?
(a) He cries.
(b) He rushes to help her up.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He jumps in front of her and blocks her view.

6. 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 she's tired of tessering.
(b) Because now she realizes that he's not so smart.
(c) Because he's not sure where they are now.
(d) Because they should have just used a plane.

7. Why won't the Mrs. W's help Mr. Murry tesser back to Camazotz?
(a) Because they're too tired to teach proper tessering.
(b) Because they are not good at tessering themselves.
(c) Because they instantly dislike Mr. Murry.
(d) Because they somehow know he will not succeed.

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

9. 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 special prison on Camazotz.
(c) Send them to a two-dimensional planet.
(d) Send them to IT.

10. What does Calvin attempt with Charles Wallace in Chapter 8 that nearly costs him and Meg to lose their chance to get to Mr. Murry?
(a) He hugs Charles warmly and congratulates him.
(b) He punches Charles very hard.
(c) He tries to pin Charles to the floor.
(d) He tries to trick him into thinking he and Meg agree.

11. 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 skip rope and bounce balls.
(b) They would have no lives of their own.
(c) They would eat very uninteresting food.
(d) They would have to live on a dark planet.

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

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

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

15. What eventually gets Meg through the object containing her father and able to get to him?
(a) Mrs. Whatsit's advice to be angry.
(b) The sound of Mrs. Which's voice somewhere.
(c) Calvin's incredible strength.
(d) Mrs. Who's glasses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Mrs. Whatsit give to Meg before she leaves on her rescue mission at the end of the novel?

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. When all of the main characters get back to Earth, where do they land?

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

5. Aside from Mrs. Whatsit, who else is certain that Meg will not encounter a fatal danger when she goes to rescue Charles Wallace?

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