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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The dog growls at the lab door in Chapter 1, and Mrs. Murry goes to see who's there. When she returns, who does she bring inside?
(a) Mrs. Whatsit.
(b) The school principal.
(c) Mrs. Buncombe.
(d) The Tramp.

2. How old does Mrs. Whatsit say she is?
(a) Twenty years old because she was born on Leap Year.
(b) 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.
(c) About one hundred years old.
(d) She can't remember she's so old.

3. Meg asks her mother to tell her more about the tesseract in Chapter 3, but what does Mrs. Murry tell her instead?
(a) To forget about it; it was nothing after all.
(b) Walk to the supermarket and pick up some milk.
(c) Walk to the library and research it herself.
(d) Go for a walk with Calvin.

4. Why can't Charles Wallace taste any of the food in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) He's too scared to taste anything.
(b) He has shut his mind completely to the Man with the Red Eyes.
(c) He's ill but only discovers it when he eats the food.
(d) He has never had turkey before.

5. What does Mrs. Whatsit say in Chapter 1 that makes Mrs. Murry's face turn white?
(a) She says there is such a thing as a tesseract.
(b) She says that Mr. Murry is in the garden.
(c) She says that the universe is made up of evil.
(d) Good intentions won't make one happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Calvin nearly break Charles Wallace out of his spell in Chapter 9?

2. How did Mr. Murry end up on Camazotz?

3. When Meg first sees Mrs. Whatsit in Chapter 1, how is she dressed?

4. Despite escaping IT with her father, why does Meg feel things have gotten worse and worse?

5. How does the author describe Calvin O'Keefe when Meg and Charles Wallace first meet him?

(see the answer key)

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