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

2. What does Meg do when Charles Wallace doesn't let her inside the object containing her father?
(a) She gets down on her knees and begs.
(b) She hurls herself at him.
(c) She tries to reason with him.
(d) She kicks him in the head and knocks him down.

3. At first, Meg cannot get enough of the Beasts' delicious food, but she loses her appetite when her father says ____________________________.
(a) If they return to Camazotz they will be executed.
(b) He has no desire to return to either Camazotz or Earth.
(c) The food they are eating has dangerous qualities that might kill her.
(d) He doesn't think it would be wise for him to return to Camazotz.

4. What does Charles Wallace tell Meg and Calvin to do in front of the strange man in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) To ask the man about his hobbies.
(b) Not look in his eyes.
(c) To stare the man down.
(d) To look and see that his eyes are brown not red.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mr. Murry unsure how long he was imprisoned on Camazotz?

2. Charles Wallace takes Meg and Calvin to a transparent column. Who is in that column?

3. Why does Meg realize she's the only one who can rescue Charles Wallace?

4. When one of the Things scoops Meg up, what does it tell Mr. Murry it's doing?

5. After being hypnotized, what does Charles Wallace call Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think it's dawning on Meg at all by Chapter 11 that she might end up rescuing her little brother on her own?

2. What does Mr. Murry tell Calvin about his experience in Camazotz that leads Meg to doubt her father?

3. Aside from being impatient, how else would you describe Meg?

4. Meg and Calvin accuse the Man with Red Eyes of hypnotizing Charles Wallace. The Man with Red Eyes says that's a "primitive" way of describing what he's done. How would you describe it?

5. Back on Earth at the end of the book, what does Mr. Murry say about something he needs to do?

6. When Meg comes to in Chapter 10, she doesn't know where she is and she can't move. What has happened to her after tessering from Camazotz?

7. Although the children refuse to obey the command of Man with Red Eyes to recite the multiplication tables, he is hardly discouraged because they're still young. "The younger the better," he says. What does he mean?

8. Describe Meg's reaction to the Beast who first touches her cheek with its tentacle.

9. Describe IT and your first reaction to reading what IT actually is.

10. What does Meg say she understands when she agrees to go on her own to rescue Charles Wallace?

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