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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 is Mr. Murry unsure how long he was imprisoned on Camazotz?
(a) Because Camazotz rotates backwards on its axis.
(b) Because no one uses clocks or calendars there.
(c) Because his captors played mind games with him.
(d) Because time there is inverted.

2. Why does the beast tell Meg she can't go to rescue her brother just yet?
(a) Because Mr. Murry and Calvin aren't well either.
(b) Because it's too dark outside to see anything.
(c) Because she's not well enough.
(d) Because she has to wait for Mrs. Whatsit.

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 takes the man by the hand and dances with him.
(c) He hits the man as hard as he can.
(d) He slaps the man, not too harshly, on his hands.

4. How does Charles Wallace react to Meg rushing to the object containing their father in Chapter 9?
(a) He jumps in front of her and blocks her view.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He rushes to help her up.
(d) He cries.

5. When all of the main characters get back to Earth, where do they land?
(a) In the lab.
(b) In the Murry's kitchen.
(c) In the twins' vegetable garden.
(d) In the haunted house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Calvin attempt with Charles Wallace in Chapter 8 that nearly costs him and Meg to lose their chance to get to Mr. Murry?

2. When the Man with the Red Eyes decides to let Meg see her father, who does he assign to take her?

3. Why won't the Mrs. W's help Mr. Murry tesser back to Camazotz?

4. Who comes up with the idea for the name "Aunt Beast"?

5. What does Meg give her father in Chapter 9 when she realizes what is wrong with him upon their being reunited?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What emotion does Camazotz rely most upon to control its citizens?

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

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

6. Describe the Man with Red Eyes.

7. 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?

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

9. Calvin says that if three of the Beasts arrived on his planet, he would shoot them. What does that say about his beliefs?

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

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