| A | B |
|---|
| antagonistic | hostile, unfriendly |
| assimilate | to absorb; to understand |
| diction | manner of speaking; pronunciation |
| ephemeral | short-lived; temporary |
| preliminaries | preparations; beginnings |
| prodigious | tremendous; amazing |
| relinquish | to let go; to abandon |
| tangible | touchable; real; solid |
| tractable | manageable; obedient |
| wraithlike | ghostly |
| aberration | change from the normal |
| dwindle | to lessen; to shrink |
| myopic | nearsighted; shortsighted |
| obliquely | slantingly; indirectly |
| perturbed | troubled; upset |
| precipitously | abruptly; steeply |
| reverberate | to echo; to vibrate |
| sadist | one who enjoys causing pain |
| wheedle | to plead; to coax |
| brusquely | roughly; impatiently |
| distraught | upset; distressed |
| emanate | to flow out; to radiate |
| impenetrable | inaccessible; indestructible |
| omnipotent | all powerful; god-like |
| translucent | allowing light through |
| transparent | clear |
| trepidation | anxiety; fear |
| Fortinbras | Murray's dog |
| Murray twins | Sandy and Dennys |
| Meg's teacher | Ms. Porter |
| Meg's principal | Mr. Jenkins |
| always seems to know what Mother and Meg are thinking | Charles Wallace |
| Sandy and Dennys seem to | feel that Mother, Meg, and Charles Wallace are not smart. |
| Father has been gone about | one year. |
| The 3 W's stole | bedsheets |
| How old are Sandy and Dennys? | 10 years old |
| What kind of weather begins the book? | hurricane-like |
| What was unusual about the way Charles Wallace began to speak? | He did not speak until around the age of four, and then he began speaking in complete sentences. |
| Charles Wallace met the 3W's where? | in the woods |
| sspokke llikke thhiss | Mrs. Which |
| showed the children the Dark Thing surrounding the earth | Mrs. Whatsit |
| oversized, pulsing brain | IT |
| former star who gave her life fighting the Dark Thing; also a winged creature or little old lady | Mrs. Whatsit |
| We live in | 3D |
| a tesseract is in | 5D |
| Mrs. Who | gave Meg her glasses |
| the creature on Ixchel who cared for Meg | Aunt Beast |
| basketball player with the gift of communication | Calvin |
| was sent by the government on a secret mission; the second one of his group to tesser | Mr. Murray |
| The creatures on Ixchel had ______ instead of fingers. | tentacles |
| 1st dimension | a line |
| 2nd dimension | a flat square |
| 3rd dimension | a cube |
| 4th dimension | time |
| 5th dimension | tesseract |
| 'It was a dark and ------ night'. What is the missing word in this first line of the first chapter of 'A Wrinkle in Time'? | stormy |
| Fortinbras | dog |
| What weather was occurring at the beginning of the book? | hurricane |
| Where is Meg's room? | in the attic |
| made comments about how long Mr. Murray had been gone | the postmistress |
| Though dressed as Halloween witches and living in a haunted house, in actuality, what kind of beings were the mysterious three ladies? | stars |
| What scientific concept did Mrs. Whatsit mention that upset Mrs. Murry? | tesseract |
| Which character came home from school with a black eye? | Meg |
| A disembodied brain. | IT |
| Who allowed the children to look into her crystal ball and see their mothers? | Happy Medium |
| Whose mind became possessed by 'It'? | Charles Wallace |
| What almost killed Meg? | Tessering through the Black Thing. |
| What did Meg call the creature who saved her life after she was almost frozen? | Aunt Beast |
| What was the name of the planet where Meg's father was held captive? | Camazotz |
| What did the man with the red eyes feed the children upon their arrival at CENTRAL Central Intelligence? | a synthetic turkey dinner |
| To which of the characters did the meal on Camazotz taste like sand? | Charles Wallace |
| What weapon did Meg use to save herself and rescue Charles from the mind of 'It'? | her love for Charles Wallace |
| In what is Mr. Murry imprisoned | a transparent column |
| Where does the final scene of the book take place? | on the lawn outside the Murry's house |
| What do the beasts on Ixchel use to communicate? | numerous tentacles |
| What does Mrs. Murray do every night? | write a letter to Mr. Murray |
| Once in a while, what does Mrs. Murry use to cook dinner? | bunsen burner |
| Where was Mr. Murry trying to tesser to when he inadvertently landed on Camazotz? | Mars |
| What character transforms herself into a beautiful centaur? | Mrs. Whatsit |
| This novel won what prize? | Newberry |
| The CENTRAL Central Intelligence Building | was on Camazotz |
| The transparent column | was on Camazotzq |
| Which of the following characters is most vulnerable to the danger of tessering through the Black Thing? | Meg |
| Who is the oldest character? | Mrs. Which |
| Mrs. Whatsit compares life to a | sonnet |
| Meg receives | Mrs. Whatsit's love |
| Meg receives | Mrs. Who's spectacles |
| Meg receives | An excerpt from the New Testament |
| L'Engle's theory of time was influenced by | Albert Einstein's relativity theory, Max Planck's quantum theory, and The Greek concept of kairos |
| The children see all of the following through the Happy Medium's crystal ball EXCEPT: | the rhythmic pulsing of IT |
| What is Meg's strongest subject at school? | Math |
| Meg's father has worked at all of the following places and institutions | The Institute for Higher Learning in Princeton, New Mexico, and Cape Canaveral, Florida |
| What was used as a weapon against IT? | The Declaration of Independence, love, and The Periodic Table |
