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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 many children are bouncing balls out of rhythm in Camazotz?
(a) Just one.
(b) Not one.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. What is Meg's first impression of Camazotz upon arriving?
(a) It is so welcoming that she wants to stay forever.
(b) It looks very much like earth.
(c) There's something frightening about it.
(d) It is so eerie she cannot imagine anything living there.

3. According to Mrs. Whatsit, how long has the Dark Thing been darkening the beauty of the earth?
(a) About one year.
(b) A couple of years.
(c) Less than one year.
(d) A good many years.

4. What happens to Mrs. Whatsit before they leave the planet they landed on in Chapter 4?
(a) She passes out with excitement.
(b) She transforms into a massive and beautiful flying creature.
(c) She morphs into a very large man.
(d) She is kidnapped by a creature that looks like a Centaur.

5. Why does Meg get into a fight with a boy after school?
(a) The boy makes fun of her glasses.
(b) Because he called her twin brothers normal.
(c) The boy grabs her books from her.
(d) Because he called her little brother dumb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children see when they look into the Happy Medium's ball?

2. Through Charles Wallace, readers discover that Mrs. Whatsit took something from Mrs. Buncombe. What did she take?

3. A boy on his paper route stops and asks Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace what they're doing on the street when only who is allowed out?

4. What does Mrs. Whatsit order Charles Wallace NOT to do while on Camazotz?

5. What does school principal Jenkins call Meg when he scolds her in his office?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Charles Wallace a pest to Meg in Chapter 3?

2. Why does the image of Calvin's mother make the Happy Medium react in a negative way?

3. How would you define the tesseract?

4. How does Mrs. Whatsit use the example of an insect traveling across a piece of string to explain how she and the other women "tesser?"

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

6. In Chapter 3, is Meg happy that she met Calvin, a popular athlete at school, or that she might be seeing her father again?

7. Do you find it believable that Charles Wallace, a five-year-old boy who has not yet started school, is so articulate, so well-spoken and so assured of himself?

8. Why is it important to know that Mrs. Whatsit is over two million years old?

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

10. 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?

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