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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. When Meg is reunited with her father at the Beasts' dining table, why does she feel distant from him?
(a) He's not properly concerned about Charles Wallace.
(b) He's not sweet and soft nor as tall as the Beasts.
(c) He seems more determined to get back to his wife.
(d) He doesn't show much interest in her recovery.

2. What do Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace see at the end of the room filled with machines in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) A platform with just a chair on it and nothing else.
(b) A platform with ballerinas dancing to music.
(c) A platform with a chair, and a man.
(d) A platform made to look like a boxing ring.

3. Charles does something to the man with strange eyes that he learned from his older twin brothers. What does he do?
(a) He challenges the man to a game of chess.
(b) He hits the man as hard as he can.
(c) He takes the man by the hand and dances with him.
(d) He slaps the man, not too harshly, on his hands.

4. Mrs. Whatsit says that if the Happy Medium could always tell them what was going to happen, they would be just like the people of Camazotz because:
(a) They would have to live on a dark planet.
(b) They would have no lives of their own.
(c) They would skip rope and bounce balls.
(d) They would eat very uninteresting food.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Charles Wallace take Meg, Calvin and Mr. Murry in Chapter 9?

2. What is it that Meg has but IT does not have?

3. What sense do the Beasts not have that surprises Meg?

4. Why does the beast tell Meg she can't go to rescue her brother just yet?

5. What gift does Mrs. Whatsit give to Meg before she leaves on her rescue mission at the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The Beasts have a much smaller vocabulary than the humans, yet they are very capable of communicating well. Why is that?

4. Describe Mr. Murry when the children see him in Chapter 9.

5. Who does Aunt Beast resemble?

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

7. People on Camazotz refer to IT but never define what IT is. Why?

8. Describe the Man with Red Eyes.

9. How does the hypnotized Charles Wallace describe Camazotz?

10. Meg goes from a baby having a tantrum to a somewhat-mature young woman in a flash when she suddenly decides to go alone to rescue Charles Wallace. Is this turn-around too quick?

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