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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 does Meg see when she looks at Charles?

2. What is it that Mr. Jenkins doesn't understand about the deepened farae?

3. What does Meg feel when she reaches out to Mr. Jenkins?

4. What does Meg do when she summons up enough love to love the Echthroi?

5. What does the Echthros-Jenkins tell the little farandolae?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the inside of the mitochondria look and feel like?

2. What does Jenkins come to understand about Charles?

3. How does Meg finally deal with Mr. Jenkins?

4. What does Meg hear the Echthros-Jenkins say to the dancing farandolae?

5. What does Progo tell Meg is the cause of Charles' illness?

6. What does Jenkins say about the Deepened farae and communication?

7. What does Calvin tell Meg about kything with adults?

8. What happens to Mr. Jenkins in the schoolyard after he faints?

9. What does the group listen to in the mitochondria?

10. What does Sporos do when the Echthroi takes over Mr. Jenkins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Meg begs Sporos to Deepen, saying that it is their only chance of survival. Sporos turns to Senex, the adult fara that is Sporos' parent, and he decides to Deepen. For Sporos to deepen means to mature. The author is saying we can't stay children forever.

1. What are the pros and cons to staying a child forever?

2. How would you say you and your parent or guardian is different because of age?

3. What do you see yourself doing at the age of 30? Do you look forward to being that age?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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