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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. Why does Meg look at her mother with a mixture of admiration and resentment in Chapter 1?
(a) Her mother is a kind and beautiful woman, as well as a brilliant scientist.
(b) Her mother is pretty and every man wants to marry her.
(c) Her mother works at home and always looks fresh.
(d) Her mother is beautiful and speaks fluent French.

2. What worries Charles Wallace about going to school next year?
(a) He thinks he'll be bored to death
(b) He thinks it will be hard to fit in.
(c) He thinks he knows nothing.
(d) He thinks that if he plays dumb, he'll become dumb.

3. What impresses the twins about Calvin more than Meg?
(a) His athletic record.
(b) His height.
(c) His red hair.
(d) His appetite for stew and jell-o.

4. What does the Happy Medium live in?
(a) A victorian style house.
(b) A cave.
(c) A secret bunker.
(d) On the top of a remote mountain.

5. After Meg sees the dark thing, who is she most concerned for?
(a) Charles Wallace.
(b) Calvin.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before dinner is served in Chapter 3, Mrs. Murry tells Meg to do what?

2. Why does Mrs. Murry tell Calvin she continues with an experiment that afternoon that she and Mr. Murry had started earlier?

3. As the children fly up in Chapter 4, why does Meg look at Charles Wallace with a bit of sadness?

4. Who appears after Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Who, proclaiming that "weee hhave mmuch ttoo ddoo?"

5. In Chapter 5, when does Mrs. Whatsit say the children will return home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is going on as the story begins?

2. How does seeing her planet from a distance covered in a black haze help Meg better understand her home?

3. Do you think the principal acts professionally in his office when he scolds Meg and suggests that her father won't return?

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

5. Mrs. Whatsit says that when they return back to earth, Mrs. Murry won't notice that they were gone at all. Why?

6. 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?

7. Can you describe Mrs. Which, as seen in Chapter 3?

8. 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?

9. Is Charles Wallace a little too protective of Meg? Does he keep her from growing up?

10. Initially, Charles and Meg are suspicious of Calvin. What makes them warm up to him?

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