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Wrinkle Study Questions Ch 5-8

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Why do the children have to go "behind the shadow"? Ch 5
To find their father because he has been taken captive "behind the darkness."
What is the meaning of "tesseract"?
It is the "wrinkling" of time and space making traveling great distances quick and easy. The tesseract is the fifth dimension of space, a dimension the children can travel through meaning that "a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points."
Who has spent a lot of time working on this concept?
Meg's parents.
Who understands the concept of a tesseract completely?
Charles Wallace.
What mistakes did the Mrs. W's make that almost killed the children?
They landed on a two-dimensional planet.
Where is the planet that they land after that?
On Orion's Belt
Why doesn't Mrs. Murray know the children are gone?
The Mrs. W's created a "time tesser" that will transport all of them back to earth five minutes before they originally left so that no one would even know they were gone.
What does the Happy Medium show the children in the crystal ball?
The darkness that surrounds and is attacking the earth.
What is the significance of this quote provided by Mrs. Who? "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
CW recognizes the quote from Jesus and realizes He is fighting the darkness.
According to Mrs. Whatsit, who has been fighting the darkness that has been attacking the earth for many years?
Jesus, as well as da Vinci, Shakespeare, Einstein, Buddha, Beethoven, Rembrandt, and St. Francis
Mrs. Whatsit tells Meg that they will be going to a "planet that has given in" to find her father. What does that mean?
The planet is being totally ruled by darkness.
What prompted the Happy Medium to say, "it can be overcome,"? Ch 6
Because she saw light by the Black Thing, overtaking it.
What did Mrs. Whatsit reveal about herself?
She had once been a star and had done battle with the Black Thing, which is why she has fallen into her current form.
Describe the scene revealed about Calvin's family by the Happy Medium.
His mother looks sloppy and is yelling at the O'Keefe children.
Describe the scene revealed about Meg's family by the Happy Medium.
Her mother is writing a letter to her father. She is very sad, something mother often hides from the kids.
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