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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 do the Beasts help Meg recover?
(a) They make her feel safe and secure.
(b) They hypnotize her using positive thoughts.
(c) They give her wild herbs that cure her paralysis.
(d) They cleanse her through a series of hot baths.

2. What is the name of the Beasts' planet?
(a) Land of the Beasts.
(b) Camazotz Two.
(c) Ixchel.
(d) Little Uriel.

3. What is Charles Wallace's interesting explanation for the lack of conflict on Camazotz?
(a) Everyone is allowed to express their own opinions.
(b) Everyone bounces balls to the exactly the same rhythm.
(c) Everyone believes that there is no other place than Camazotz.
(d) Individualism has been done away with.

4. Why is Mr. Murry able to keep from being absorbed by IT?
(a) He fools IT by dressing like the man with Red Eyes.
(b) Mr. Murry refuses and resists, which IT is unused to.
(c) He is smarter than IT.
(d) His biological makeup makes it difficult for IT to absorb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Charles Wallace looks the same after being hypnotized, he acts as if someone has possessed him. How does Meg know this?

2. How has Mr. Murry's appearance changed when the children see him in Chapter 9?

3. What does Charles Wallace tell Meg and Calvin to do in front of the strange man in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?

4. When the Thing picks Meg up, how many of its arms does it use to cradle her?

5. After she tessers with her father and Calvin out of Camazotz, what happens to Meg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Meg realize for a short moment about herself when Charles points out how being different can lead to unhappiness?

2. Does Charles Wallace obey his father when they meet in Chapter 9?

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

4. In Chapter 10, what disappoints Meg most about her father?

5. Relate the message Mrs. Which gives Meg when she lands for the second time on Camazotz.

6. Who does Aunt Beast resemble?

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

8. 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?

9. Describe the Man with Red Eyes.

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

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