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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. As the children fly up in Chapter 4, why does Meg look at Charles Wallace with a bit of sadness?
(a) She feels he's growing away from her.
(b) She thinks he's being mean to her.
(c) She thinks he's a secret spy.
(d) She realizes that he's smarter than she.

2. 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?
(a) Delivery people.
(b) Employees of the newspaper company.
(c) Police.
(d) Route Boys.

3. What did Mrs. Whatsit not mean to tell the children about being a star?
(a) That it's better being who she is now.
(b) That it was hard work.
(c) That she didn't like it at all.
(d) That she loved it.

4. Who appears after Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Who, proclaiming that "weee hhave mmuch ttoo ddoo?"
(a) Mrs. Which.
(b) The postmistress.
(c) Mrs. Murry.
(d) Mrs. Whatsit.

5. Why is Meg bored in math class?
(a) Because she doesn't like math and would rather study literature.
(b) Because she would rather solve the world's problems than math problems.
(c) Because nothing the math teacher says makes sense.
(d) Because her father taught her clever shortcuts to solving problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, why does Calvin say Meg is so lucky?

2. Why does the Happy Medium fall asleep?

3. When the children and the ladies are about to tesser in Chapter 5, who goes first?

4. Who is Fortinbras?

5. What does the individual that the children meet in the haunted house in Chapter 2 call Charles Wallace and Meg?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Describe Calvin's family life as he tells it to the Murrys.

3. Why does Meg sob heavily when she discovers her father is probably behind the Dark Thing?

4. 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?

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

6. As Charles Wallace and Meg head into the woods to the haunted house, several things happen between these two siblings that show their closeness. Name one thing that happens and how it demonstrates their close bond.

7. Why do the children need the flowers during the flight with Mrs. Whatsit?

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

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

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

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