Characters
This character is described as having mouse-brown hair, glasses, and braces and feels like everything about her is wrong
Who is Meg Murry?
This visitor arrived at the Murry house during the storm, bundled in layers of clothing and claiming she got blown off course
Who is Mrs Whatsit?
Meg tackled a boy and threw her books on the side of the road after he said something about this person
Who is her "dumb baby brother" (Charles Wallace)?
The initial setting described in Chapter 1 is this kind of night23
What is a dark and stormy night?
Mrs. Murry says Meg lacks this quality, also called a "happy medium"
What is moderation?
Meg's ten-year-old twin brothers, who are good at games and don't have many problems
Who are Sandy and Dennys?
This visitor sits sewing sheets in the haunted house and speaks in quotes from different languages
Who is Mrs Who?
Meg hoped her encounter with Mrs Whatsit during the storm was this when she woke up the next morning
What is a dream?
The room in the Murry house where Meg feels a sense of familiar comfort despite the storm
What is the kitchen?
Charles Wallace uses this word, which he learned that day, to describe wanting to keep something to himself
What is exclusive?
This character is Meg's youngest brother who has an uncanny way of knowing when she is unhappy and didn't speak until he was almost four
Who is Charles Wallace Murry?
Charles Wallace identifies this visitor by their sharp, strange voice and says they find it difficult to materialize completely
Who is Mrs Which?
According to Mrs Who, this person needs their help because it's getting "near time"
Who is Meg's father?
This old shingled house in the woods is where Mrs Whatsit and her friends live, and children are afraid it's haunted
What is the haunted house?
Mrs. Murry describes the tesseract as this, something you don't have to understand for it to be
What is a concept?
This character is described as a scientist and a beauty, with flaming red hair and violet eyes
Who is Mrs. Murry?
According to Mrs Who, this is why they needed Mrs. Buncombe's sheets
What is for ghosts?
This was the word mentioned by Mrs Whatsit that caused Mrs. Murry to go very white and tremble
What is tesseract?
The part of the Murry house where Mrs. Murry works on experiments
What is the lab?
Charles Wallace defines himself and Calvin using this term from biology
What is a sport?
The big black dog in the Murry family, part Llewellyn setter and part greyhound, who never barks without reason
Who is Fortinbras?
Mrs Whatsit said she knew it was Charles Wallace's house by this unique method
What is by the smell?
This is what the government told Mrs. Murry about her husband's absence
What is he is on a secret and dangerous mission?
Calvin O'Keefe tells Meg she is lucky because she has this, something he feels his own family lacks
What is love? (or being loved)
Calvin O'Keefe describes having a strong feeling he must follow as this, meaning constraint or obligation
What is compulsion?