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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. How does Progo take Meg places?

2. What does Blajeny say when Meg asks about failure?

3. What sport do Sandy and Dennys play?

4. Who beat up Charles at school that day?

5. What do Meg and Charles wonder about when they return to the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Progo say is how the Echthroi create the comic rips?

2. Whom does Blajeny introduce to the children and what is that person?

3. Who comes striding out of the woods where Meg, Charles and Calvin are standing?

4. When Meg takes Louise from Charles what does she ask the Jenkinses?

5. What happens when Charles and Meg get to the garden and there are no dragons?

6. How does Meg feel about Mr. Jenkins, why does she go to see him and what happened when she did?

7. What does Progo say about love when he tries to get Meg to understand about Mr. Jenkins and her hate?

8. What does Meg tell her mother Charles thinks is wrong with him?

9. What does Meg notice about Charles' physical condition and what does he tell her?

10. What does Mr. Murry believe about his wife's work and what does she realize about the relationship between their work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Each of the three Jenkinses behaves differently, but their behavior does not necessarily reveal their true nature. If Meg were to focus only on their behavior, she would not be able to Name the true Jenkins. Instead, Meg must go within and find the core center of Mr. Jenkins, that which makes him who he is.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think that behavior is not necessarily a true indication of who a person really is? Use an example to support your opinion.

3. Do you think each person has a core center that makes that person who he/she is? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

This chapter is a metaphor for the principle of turning the other cheek, or continuing to love even after one has been hurt.

1. How does turning the other cheek relate to Meg's fear and behavior after she was caught by one of the Echthros-Jenkins in Yadah?

2. Describe an incident in your life or someone you know when turning the other cheek helped a situation or not turning the cheek worsened one.

3. Describe a situation, imaginary if you like, in which you would be unwilling to turn the other cheek.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 3, the children meet Blajeny and the cherubim, Proginoskes. These fantastical characters, juxtaposed with the everyday normality of making cocoa at the Murry house, help lend the story characteristics of magic realism.

1. From this statement what do you think magic realism means?

2. Why do you think an author would write about ordinary events, such as making cocoa, in a book in which much that takes place is not real?

3. Did the children meeting Proginoskes seem as real to you as drinking cocoa? Why or why not?

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