Chapter 10 Reading Check

What do we get from Meg about what is happening at the beginning of the chapter?

• At first she feels cold, then she hears the voices of her father and Calvin.

• Meg is indifferent to the strange occurrences.
• Meg feels confused and concerned about strange events.
• Meg is excited about the upcoming events.

What are they (Mr. Murray & Calvin) saying about Meg?

• They can detect her heart beating, and it is getting stronger

• They are ignoring Meg completely because she is dying

• They are expressing concern for Meg and acknowledging her strengths.
• They are criticizing Meg's behavior.

How does Mr. Murry explain how they were able to hold out from IT’s control?

• They succumbed to IT's control.

• They were able to escape IT's control by hiding.
• They resisted IT's control by using technology.
• "No one has ever tried to hold out, that long before. It is something in the  brain that has become atrophied through lack of use."

What is he (Mr. Murray) implying?

• He is stating a fact without any implications.
• He is confused about the situation.
• That we have become willing followers over the years. 

• He is implying something deeper or more significant.

What does Mr. Murry say about his condition when Meg burst in to save him?

• He was about to give in. That he felt that peace and rest was about to  come over him as he gave in.

• He is happy and wants to leave immediately.
• He feels indifferent and doesn't care about her arrival.
• He is angry and refuses to see Meg.

How did Mr. Murry say he ended up on Camazotz?

• He was transported there by a spaceship.
• He ended up on Camazotz by using a tesseract while trying to go to Mars.

• He arrived on Camazotz through a wormhole.
• He walked there from Earth.

Why does he say that Charles Wallace was the first to give into IT?

• Charles Wallace resisted IT longer than others.
• IT was first introduced to Charles Wallace.
• Charles believed too much in his ability to resist, or get out, that he was  the first to be taken in.

• Charles Wallace was the last to give into IT.

What does Mr. Murry tell us about others studying tessering?

• Everyone excels at tessering without any effort.
• Tessering is easy and requires no practice.
• Only a few people can master tessering without help.
• That we weren’t the only country doing it.

Mr. Murry wasn’t the first one to try tessering. Who was the first one and how did they determine who would go first?

• Harriet. They went in alphabetical order according to last name.

• Hank. They drew straws.

• Hal. They held a lottery. Hal's number was first.

• Charles Wallace was the first to try tessering.

What happened to him (the first person to try tessering)?

• He died.

• He successfully tessered to another location.
• He never returned.

• He gained superpowers from tessering.