Characters & Relationships
Who is trapped inside the transparent column?
Who is Mr. Murray?
What is IT revealed to actually be?
What is a giant disembodied brain?
What Shakespeare play does Calvin reference when talking to Charles Wallace?
What is The Tempest?
What color light surrounds the domed building where IT lives?
What is violet light?
What emotion helps Meg resist fear several times in these chapters?
What is anger?
Which character tries to free Charles Wallace by quoting lines from The Tempest?
Who is Calvin?
What happens to people under IT’s control on Camazotz?
What is they all think and act exactly alike?
What word describes traveling through space and time in the novel?
What is tessering?
What building do Meg and the others leave before entering IT’s dome?
What is the CENTRAL Central Intelligence Building?
What lesson does Meg learn about her father in these chapters?
What is that he is not all-powerful and can make mistakes?
What item allows Meg to pass through the transparent wall?
What are Mrs. Who’s spectacles?
What physical effect does IT’s rhythm have on Meg?
What is it controls her heartbeat and breathing?
What document does Meg recite to fight against IT’s control?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
After tessering away from Camazotz, what strange condition affects Meg?
What is paralysis/freezing cold?
Why is individuality important in these chapters?
What is because IT tries to erase differences and force everyone to be the same?
Why is Meg upset with her father after they escape from Camazotz?
Why is she upset because he could not save Charles Wallace or fix everything?
What important realization helps Meg resist IT?
What is “Like and equal are not the same thing”?
What math question does Mr. Murry ask Meg to help her resist IT?
What is “What’s the square root of five?”
How is the new planet described when Meg wakes up?
What is gray, cold, rusty-colored, and filled with a sweet fragrance?
How does Meg’s disappointment in her father connect to the novel’s themes?
What is it shows that even heroes and adults are imperfect humans?
Which character explains that Charles Wallace was captured because he trusted too much in his own strength?
Who is Mr. Murry?
Why does Mr. Murry say IT is vulnerable to resistance?
Why is it because no one has resisted IT for so long that parts of its power have weakened from lack of use?
According to Mr. Murry, what are humans “playing with” when experimenting with time and space?
What is dynamite?
Describe the creatures Meg meets on the new planet.
What are tall gray creatures with tentacles, four arms, and no eyes?
Explain how Meg’s faults help her resist IT.
What is her stubbornness, anger, and impatience help her fight against IT’s control instead of giving in?