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Chapter Questions A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Ch1
1. Predict what the title of this book, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle, is referring to.
2. List the main character in the first chapter and give a breift description of each.
3. List the settings. (place, time, weather, etc)
Ch 2
1. What did Meg’s father do for a living? Why is Meg so sensitive when people question
her about her father?
2. What does belligerent mean? Give an example for how Meg was acting like a
belligerent child in school.
3. What does antagonisitic mean? Show your understanding of the word by creating a
sentence of your own.
4. How does a 5 year old Charles Wallace know about events and circumstances ahead of
time? Give 2 example from this chapter which proves that he is capable of doing this.
5. What does inadvertently mean? Give an example.
6. What reason does Charles Wallace give for not reading and not talking?
7. Why did Mrs Whatsit take the sheets from Mrs Buncomb’s line?
8. Which characters are introduced for the first time in this chapter? Give a breift description
of each.
9. What do you think that Charles Wallace meant when he said to Calvin that “Meg was not
one of us.”?
Chapter 3
1. What kind of home life do you think Calvin has?
2. What does judiciously mean?
3. What is Meg’s nickname and what does it mean?
4. What rumor was being spread about Meg’s father?
5. Which character was introduced at the end of this chapter?
6. Where do you think the group wil be travelling to find Meg’s father?
Chapter 4
1. What is an easy to tell the three Mrs’s apart?
2. Describe what the groups’s first trip was like into a new dimension.
3. What was the name of the planet they landed on? Summarize the setting.
4. How did the group travel to this new place?
5. What did Mrs. Whatsit transform into? Describe the appearance, using a quotation from
the book.
6. What did they use the flower for in this chapter?
7. What do you think the black thing was?
Chapter 5
1. How did Mrs Who show how the tesser works?
2. What is the fifth dimension?
3. What was Mrs. Which’s mistake when they were tessering?
4. Where did they tesser to?
5. Why did they stop there?
Chapter 6
1. What does anticlimax mean?

2. What did the group see when the “medium” allowed them to see inside Calvin’s home?
3. Which dark planet did the group visit in this in this chapter? What is it like?
4. While on Camazotz what gift does Mrs Whatsit give to each of the children? What hint
does Mrs Who offer to Calvin?
5. What object does Mrs Who leave to Meg? Predict what you think these may be
useful for.
6. Summarize the setting of the town in Camazotz.
7. What do you think that “It” is?
Chapter 7
1. Describe the man that the group confront at the Central Intelligence Centre?
2. Why did Charles Wallace’s food taste like sand while the others enjoyed a full-course
meal?
3. What does the expression “Patience is a virtue” mean?
Chapter 8
1. Where has Charles Wallace gone at the beginning of the chapter?
2. What happens to people who are sick on the planet camazotz?
3. What is “It” know as?
4. What happens to the little boy who couldn’t bounce the ball properly?
5. In your opinion, would it be easier to live in a world ran by one mind? Why or why not?
Chapter 9
1. How has Meg’s father changed since she has seen him last?
2. How did Meg manage to get through the transparent column?
3. What was it like inside the domed building where the brain of “it” operates from?
4. What does omnipotent mean? Why wasn’t Meg’s father omnipotent anymore?
5. Describe what “It’ looks like. Is it anything like what you had predicted previously? Why
or why not?
Chapter 10
1. Make a prediction as to how you think that the novel will end.
2. There is a conflict evident in this novel. Is it an external or an internal one? Why?
3. Describe the mood of this chapter. Give an example which emphasizes the mood.
4. Give the theme of this novel in one clean, concise sentence.
Chapter 11
1. What does Calvin mean on page 166 when he says, “We’re...we’re shawdowed. But
we are fighting this shawdow.”?
2. Describe the beast that the group meets in this chapter.
3. What concept is it that these beasts struggle to understand? How have they managed
to adapt?
Chapter 12
1. Why was it decided that Meg should be the one to travel bacl to Camazotz to save
Charles Wallace?
2. How can our lives be compared to a sonnet? (pg. 179)
3. What does Meg have that “It” does not? How does this save them?
4. Did you like the ending? Why or why not? Provide an alternate idea to end the book.