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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What impresses the twins about Calvin more than Meg?
2. What does the Happy Medium first show in her crystal ball?
3. Charles Wallace and Mrs. Murry offer food to Mrs. Whatsit. She expresses a fondness for what?
4. What did Mrs. Whatsit not mean to tell the children about being a star?
5. Meg asks her mother to tell her more about the tesseract in Chapter 3, but what does Mrs. Murry tell her instead?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Calvin's personal life form him?
2. When the Happy Medium shows Meg her mother, she reacts with anger. Why might this reaction be a good thing this time?
3. 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?
4. How does Mrs. Whatsit use the example of an insect traveling across a piece of string to explain how she and the other women "tesser?"
5. 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?
6. Why do the children need the flowers during the flight with Mrs. Whatsit?
7. Is it a good idea to bring the children to Uriel before traveling to the next planet?
8. Why is it important to know that Mrs. Whatsit is over two million years old?
9. Is Charles Wallace a little too protective of Meg? Does he keep her from growing up?
10. How would you define the tesseract?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider Sandy and Dennis as normal boys. Analyze how these boys (older than Charles Wallace but younger than Meg) appear more like the norm for young boys. Main points include (1) they are average students, (2) they are interested in sports and know Calvin for his ball playing ability, and (3) they are critical of Meg and Charles Wallace because they are different.
Essay Topic 2
Considering the teenage years in a young person's life, discuss the self-loathing Meg goes through. Is she really different from most other pre-adolescent girls? Compare Meg and Calvin to discuss whether growing up is more difficult for a girl than for a boy.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay on how things are so in fantasy fiction if the author says they are so. Find at least three things in the novel that the reader accepts as true because the author says they are. Be specific with your examples, giving lines from the novel to back up your contention.
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