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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Meg react when the Happy Medium shows her mother in the crystal ball?
(a) She gloats because her mother is so beautiful.
(b) She can't stop crying.
(c) She has no reaction.
(d) At first she cries, then resolves to find her father.

2. What is the weather like the night Mrs. Whatsit appeared at the Murry house?
(a) Overcast, about to rain.
(b) Dark and stormy.
(c) Rainy and hailing.
(d) Sunny and breezy.

3. Who was Charles Wallace with when he discovered where Mrs. Whatsit and her friends lived?
(a) No one.
(b) Mrs. Murry.
(c) Sandy and Dennys.
(d) Fortinbras.

4. What does Mrs. Who tell Meg she must learn in order to help her father?
(a) Patience.
(b) How to fly a plane.
(c) Pathological lying.
(d) Persistence.

5. Why does Charles Wallace agree to take Fortinbras with them into the woods?
(a) Because Meg likes walking the dog.
(b) Because he's a fierce guard dog who will protect them.
(c) He uses his sense of smell to find places.
(d) He needs the exercise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Meg look at her mother with a mixture of admiration and resentment in Chapter 1?

2. After Meg, who is the next family member to enter the kitchen in Chapter 1?

3. How could Mrs. Who's manner of speech be described?

4. When the kids return home in Chapter 3, what is Mrs. Murry doing in her lab?

5. After seeing the Happy Medium's proof that the Dark Thing can be overcome, what does Charles Wallace discover about Mrs. Whatsit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Meg reacts too strongly to Charles' and Mrs. Who's talk about her father in Chapter 2?

2. When Meg and Calvin talk about Meg's missing father, at one point she says she wishes she were a different person because she hates herself. Do you think she wishes she were more like her mother?

3. Why is Meg so perturbed that Charles Wallace and Mrs. Murry are so quick to welcome Mrs. Whatsit into their home?

4. What was Mrs Whatsit and what did she do before she became who she is now?

5. Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Who continue to elaborate about the fight against the Black Thing by naming other fighters. Who are some of those fighters, and what does it say about the Black Thing?

6. What does Mrs. Whatsit give to each of the children before they part on Camazotz?

7. Why does Meg have such a hard time fitting in at school?

8. What is going on as the story begins?

9. Is it a good idea to bring the children to Uriel before traveling to the next planet?

10. Why do you think Mrs. Whatsit gives Charles Wallace the "resilience of your childhood"?

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