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A Wrinkle in Time- by Madeleine L’Engle
Chapter 8 Study Guide
Answer each of the following questions in complete sentences.
1.) What does Meg think has happened to Charles Wallace?
2.) What do you think has happened to him?
3.) What does Charles Wallace tell Meg about Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which?
4.) What is Calvin’s gift from Mrs. Whatsit?
5.) How does Calvin try to use this gift?
6.) Does it work? Explain.
7.) How do they make sure that no one suffers on Camazotz?
8.) What do you think about this practice?
9.) What do you think IT is?
10.) Where is father?
11.) How would you solve Dr. Murry’s problem?
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12.) How does Meg help her father get out of the column?
13.) Meg thought that everything was going to be all right once she found her father, but it wasn’t. Why not?
14.) What would you do if you were Meg?
15-16.) What is “IT” and what does “IT” do on Camazotz?
17-19.) What are Meg’s faults?
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20.) Are her faults helping her? – Why? – Why not?
21.) How do they escape from the power of “IT”?
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22.) Why had Mr. Murry gone to Camazotz in the first place?
23.) What planet are they on now?
24.) Why was Meg so disappointed with her father?
25.) Read the description of the creatures of this new place (page 151). Then draw a picture to show what you
imagine them to look like.