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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. Why is the Happy Medium reluctant to look at the children's home planet?
2. Who accompanies Meg on the flight to see the Black Thing?
3. Why is Meg bored in math class?
4. Why does Mrs. Whatsit give each child a flower for the journey?
5. How old does Mrs. Whatsit say she is?
Short Essay Questions
1. Do you find it believable that Charles Wallace, a five-year-old boy who has not yet started school, is so articulate, so well-spoken and so assured of himself?
2. Do you think the principal acts professionally in his office when he scolds Meg and suggests that her father won't return?
3. How would you define the tesseract?
4. In Chapter 3, is Meg happy that she met Calvin, a popular athlete at school, or that she might be seeing her father again?
5. Why is it important to know that Mrs. Whatsit is over two million years old?
6. Is it a good idea to bring the children to Uriel before traveling to the next planet?
7. 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?
8. Why does the image of Calvin's mother make the Happy Medium react in a negative way?
9. Can you describe Mrs. Which, as seen in Chapter 3?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay on the socialistic conformity of the people on Camazotz. Consider that the novel was written during the so-called Cold War. Discuss the similarities and differences of the Camazotz people and Earth people. Summarize what L'Engle is saying about the contrast between democracy and communism.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think L'Engle used the term 'tesseract' in her novel? Consider: (1) the exotic nature of the geometric tesseract, (2) the little known vocabulary word, (3) the sense of being scientific the term gives to the novel, and (4) the illusion presented by a rotating tesseract.
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