Study Guide for A Wrinkle in Time-by Madeleine L’Engle
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CHAPTER 4 - "The Black Thing"
VOCABULARY
extinguish
void
shimmer
apprehension aloft
corporeal ineffable passionately transform summit
Answer the following questions with complete sentences:
1. What do you think is happening to Meg at the beginning of this chapter?
2. Why does Mrs. Who use so many quotes instead of using her own
words?
3. Find the sentence on page 61 that describes what Mrs. Whatsit’s voice
sounds like. Write the sentence:.
4. Where are they now, and how did they get there?
5. Why did they stop on Uriel?
6. Mrs. Whatsit transformed into another creature right before the kid’s
eyes. Draw a picture to show what she looks like in her new body.
7. Find the sentence on page 65 that describes Mrs. Whatsit’s new voice.
How does Mrs. Whatsit’s new voice sound compared to her old voice?
8. What did the kids see as they flew over the garden while riding on Mrs.
Whatsit’s back?
9. What were the creatures singing?
10. Why did the children need to use the flowers that were given to them?
11. What did Mrs. Whatsit show them when they reached the summit of the
mountain?
Study Guide for A Wrinkle in Time-by Madeleine L’Engle
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12. Find the sentences that describe how this sight made each of the kids
feel. (Look on pages 71-73.) Choose one of the characters listed below, and
create an open mind (draw a picture of how they feel) to show her/his
feelings.
a) Meg
b) Charles Wallace
c) Calvin
To learn more about Uriel click on the image below.
http://www.uriel.com/uriel/
Study Guide for A Wrinkle in Time-by Madeleine L’Engle
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CHAPTER 5 - RESEARCH
How many of these people can you identify? Look up the following
"Light Bearers," and prepare to tell the class something important you
learn about each person:
1. JESUS
2. LEONARDO da VINCI
3. MICHELANGELO
4. SHAKESPEARE
5. BACH
6. PASTEUR
7. MADAME CURIE
8. EINSTEIN
9. SCHWEITZER
10. GANDHI
11. BUDDHA
12. BEETHOVEN
13. REMBRANDT
14. ST. FRANCIS (new link: http://www.anaflora.com/grieving/emissaries/francis.html)
15. EUCLID
16. COPERNICUS
What do all of these people have in common?
Why do you think they were all mentioned together in the story?
Study Guide for A Wrinkle in Time-by Madeleine L’Engle
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CHAPTER 5 - "The Tesseract"
VOCABULARY
dissolution
curtsy
glimpse reverberate tentative
anxiety nondescript transition triumphant atmosphere
Answer each question with complete sentences:
1. Read over the last paragraph of Chapter 4 and the first paragraph of
Chapter 5. Why is Meg so upset?
2. What mistake does Mrs. Which make when they are tessering?
3. What happened to Meg because of Mrs. Which’s mistake?
4. What is a “tesseract” anyway?
5. Build your own tesseract and then watch it in action.
5. Make a storyboard (a short story in drawings, like a comic strip) showing
what you think the experience of tessering would be like.
6. Where are they now, and why are they there?
7. In your own words write a description of the Happy Medium and the
place where she lives.
8. Why did the Happy Medium not want to look at Earth?
9. What do you think the dark thing is or represents?
10. Where is Meg’s father?
11. What do you think has happened to him?
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CHAPTER 6 - "The Happy Medium"
VOCABULARY
seethe solemn
myopic
vulnerable
aberration
writhe anticlimax unkempt simultaneous precipitously
..
Answer the following questions with complete sentences:
1. What made the darkness disappear?
2. Why did Charles Wallace want to kiss Mrs. Whatsit?
3. Meg became angry when she saw how sad her mother was. Why did Mrs.
Whatsit tell Meg to "Stay angry”?
4. The three women had to leave the kids on their own on Camazotz.
However, before they left, they each gave something special to the kids.
What gift did each woman give them?
a) Mrs. Whatsit gave to:
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

Calvin Meg Charles Wallace -
b) Mrs. Who gave to:
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

Calvin Charles Wallace Meg -
c) Mrs. Which gave all three of them a command. What was it?
5. Mrs. Whatsit also warned Charles Wallace about something. What was
it?
6. Why were the kids left on Camazotz anyway? What were they going to
do?
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7. What are Meg’s faults? How can her faults help her with her mission?
a)
b)
c)
8. Write a paragraph describing what it is like on Camazotz. How would you
like living in a place like this?
9. Create an Open Mind (draw a picture of the words you might see in his
mind) showing why Charles Wallace got scared.