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1. What can be seen at the beginning of Chapter 1?

The big kitchen of the Murry's house is bright and warm. The curtains are drawn against the dark and the rain. Meg has made an arrangement of chrysanthemums for the dining room table that seem to add light to the room.

2. In Chapter 1, what are Charles Wallace and his father constructing?

Charles Wallace and his father are building a model of a tesseract. It is a beautiful and complicated creation of steel wires and ball bearings, and Lucite. Parts of it revolve. Other parts swing like pendulums.

3. Who is Mrs. O'Keefe, and what does she look like?

Mrs. O'Keefe is Meg's mother-in-law. She looks like an old woman even though she is not more than a few years older than Mrs. Murry. She has lost most of her teeth. Her hair is yellowish and unkempt and appears to have been cut with a blunt knife. She wears her usual look of resentment on her face.

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