The answers to these questions should be written down as you are
reading the book. These questions will help to guide your reading. You will be
tested on the book in September.
General Questions:
1. List the characters as they are introduced and describe them.
2. List the different settings that are described.
3. Be able to tell what happens in the beginning of the story,
middle of the story, and the end.
4. What was the problem?
5. Was the problem resolved? How?
6. How did the story conclude?
Questions for Chapters
1-3
7.How does Meg feel about herself?
8. What kind of student is Meg?
9. Describe Charles Wallace.
10. Where is Mr. Murry?
11. Describe the relationship between Meg and Charles Wallace.
12. Describe Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which.
13. Who is Calvin O’Keefe?
14. What does the word “sport” mean as it is used in the story?
Questions for Chapters 4
and 5
15. What does Meg feel the first time she travels by “wrinkling”
through time?
16. What is the black thing that Mrs. Whatsit show the children
on Uriel?
17. In what dimension is a tesseract?
18. What is a tesseract?
19. Why won’t Mrs. Murry and Mrs. O’Keefe miss their children while
they travel to other worlds?
20. What does the Happy Medium show the children about Earth
that frightens them?
Questions for Chapters 6
and 7
21.What did Mrs. Whatsit used to be? Why did she stop being like
that?
22. What are the parting gifts given to the children by Mrs.
Whatsit or Mrs. Who?
23. What do the children discover is unusual about the mothers
and children on the outskirts of Camazotz?
24. What is CENTRAL Central Intelligence?
25. Who is the man with the red eyes?
Questions for Chapters 8
and 9
26. What happens to change Charles Wallace?
27. What does Charles Wallace want for Meg?
28. List two things that do not exist on Camazotz that exist on
earth.
29. Who is the one mind of Camazotz?
30. What is the difference between the reactions of Charles
Wallace and Meg when they see their father?
31.What object helps release Mr. Murry from his transparent
column?
32. Describe IT.
33. Explain how Meg is almost lost to IT, and how she is saved.
Questions for Chapters 10-12
34. Who does Meg blame first for the loss of Charles Wallace?
35. Why doesn’t Mr. Murry grab Charles Wallace as he, Meg, and
Calvin tesser away from IT?
36. Describe the inhabitants of Ixchel?
37. Who is Aunt Beast?
38. Why does Meg have to be the one to go back to Camazotz and
rescue Charles Wallace from IT?
39. What gifts do Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which give
Meg as she is about to return to Camazotz?
40. Is Charles Wallace himself when Meg returns to Camazotz?
41. How does Meg pull Charles Wallace away from IT?
