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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is IT?
(a) A brain.
(b) A very old woman.
(c) A robot.
(d) An ancient god.

2. Charles Wallace pulls Meg and Calvin aside in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building to tell them what?
(a) Leave this CENTRAL Central Intelligence place.
(b) Get hypnotized because it might help him fit in at school.
(c) Meet with Mrs. Whatsit and see if she'll let him go on his own.
(d) To let the Man with the Red Eyes hypnotize him.

3. After she tessers with her father and Calvin out of Camazotz, what happens to Meg?
(a) She loses her eyesight.
(b) She becomes temporarily paralyzed.
(c) She learns a mysterious new language.
(d) She becomes an expert at tessering.

4. When the Thing picks Meg up, how many of its arms does it use to cradle her?
(a) Just one.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

5. When Charles focuses on the strange man's eyes in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building, why does Meg jump on her younger brother with all her might?
(a) She wants to look into the man's red eyes.
(b) She is sick and tired of Charles Wallace's antics.
(c) She sees that her brother is getting hypnotized.
(d) She wants to try jumping the way her twin brothers do.

6. In Chapter 11, when Mr. Murry demands the Beasts put Meg down, who do they ask to speak with?
(a) Meg.
(b) Calvin.
(c) IT.
(d) Mrs. Murry.

7. In Chapter 8, Charles says everything on Camazotz is in order. Why?
(a) Because everybody rebels against tradition.
(b) Because there is no leader on the planet.
(c) Because everybody has learned to submit.
(d) Because everybody goes to a party everyday.

8. Before seeing anyone new enter the Beasts' dining area in Chapter 12, Meg's heart "pounds with hope." Why?
(a) Because she has convinced her father to reconsider.
(b) Because her mother has suddenly appeared on Ixchel.
(c) Because the Beasts have offered to go with her.
(d) Because she knows the Mrs. W's have arrived.

9. What is it that Meg has but IT does not have?
(a) The ability to love.
(b) The ability to reason.
(c) The ability to remember.
(d) The ability to work math.

10. What does Charles Wallace tell Meg and Calvin to do in front of the strange man in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?
(a) To ask the man about his hobbies.
(b) To look and see that his eyes are brown not red.
(c) Not look in his eyes.
(d) To stare the man down.

11. Mrs. Whatsit says the reason that Mr. Murry is bad at tessering is:
(a) He lacks good coordination.
(b) He always does it with his eyes closed.
(c) That he still treats it like he's working with a machine.
(d) He treats it like an everyday event.

12. Mrs. Whatsit says that if the Happy Medium could always tell them what was going to happen, they would be just like the people of Camazotz because:
(a) They would have to live on a dark planet.
(b) They would skip rope and bounce balls.
(c) They would eat very uninteresting food.
(d) They would have no lives of their own.

13. How has Mr. Murry's appearance changed when the children see him in Chapter 9?
(a) He has long hair, a beard, and no glasses.
(b) Not at all.
(c) He is overweight and his head is shaved.
(d) He is skinnier than Meg and has shrunk in height.

14. Why does Mr. Murry hand Mrs. Who's glasses back to Meg in Chapter 11?
(a) He doesn't believe in Mrs. Who, so he feels no need to keep them.
(b) They are ugly and don't look nice on him.
(c) They didn't work as Mrs. Who said they would.
(d) Their virtue has gone and they are now only glass.

15. How does Charles Wallace react to Meg rushing to the object containing their father in Chapter 9?
(a) He rushes to help her up.
(b) He cries.
(c) He jumps in front of her and blocks her view.
(d) He laughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mr. Murry unsure how long he was imprisoned on Camazotz?

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

3. When Meg can speak in Chapter 10, she tells her father firmly, in a voice that she has never used with him before that they shouldn't have tessered. Why?

4. What do Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace see at the end of the room filled with machines in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building?

5. Charles Wallace takes Meg and Calvin to a transparent column. Who is in that column?

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