A Wrinkle in Time Ch. 5-8 Review

What does a tesseract do?

• defeat the dark Thing
• travel in the 5th dimension by squaring time
• defeat the Dark Lord
• house ants

In the beginning of Chapter 5, we find out that Meg's father is fighting:

• The graceful winged creature Mrs. Whatsit transformed into on Uriel
• the tesseract
• the dark Thing
• the government

When the children arrive in Orion's Belt, the three unearthly beings take them to whom?

• the dark Thing
• Mrs. Murry
• Mr. Murry
• The Happy Medium

It is in Orion's Belt that the children discover that Mrs. Whatsit is:

• 27 years old
• 3,000,000 years old
• 2,379,152,497 years old

Who says the following quote: "But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts."

• Meg Murry
• Mrs. Whatsit
• Charles Wallace
• Calvin

The Happy Medium has the children look through a crystal ball at Earth. It's then that they discover that the dark shadow has begun to darken the beauty of Earth for a great many years. Mrs. Whatsit explains that there have been fighters from Earth before. Who are some of the ones named in this chapter?

• Jesus
• Buddha
• Leonardo da Vinci and Eucid
• All of the above

It is during the encounter with the Happy Medium that the children learn that Meg's father is on a planet where:

• The people have given in
• the people are happy
• the people love and worship the Dark Thing
• the people are rebelling against IT

In one of the sequences that the children watch in the crystal ball, they see a star defeat the Thing; however, it dies in the process. It is at this moment that we learn that _ once was a star who also defeated the Thing but died, too.

• Mrs. Whatsit
• Mrs. Who
• Mrs. Murry
• Dr. Murry

In the last sequence, we see Calvin's mother standing near the sink. How would you describe her?

• happy, elated, content
• scared, frightened
• unkempt, angry, impatient
• loving, supportive

After their meeting in Orion's Belt, the children travel to:

• Earth
• Uriel
• Camazotz
• Saturn