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Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle In Time

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

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1. In Chapter 2, Mr. Jenkins tells Meg, “[...] I can’t do anything more with you. Go on back to study hall. Try to be a little less antagonistic. Maybe your work would improve if your general attitude were more tractable.” 

What does antagonistic mean in this context?

A) Meg is the novel’s villain or “bad guy.”

B) Meg is a quiet, kind person.

C) Meg is often misunderstood.

D) Meg is generally disagreeable.

2. In Chapter 1, Meg worries about a “tramp” breaking into her family’s house with a knife. Who is she afraid will break into her house?

A) A runaway prisoner

B) A homeless person, or someone who gets by on begging or stealing

C) Her father in disguise and on the run from the law

D) An imaginary, dangerous creature

3. In Chapter 2, Calvin and Charles Wallace refer to themselves as sports, meaning, “A change in gene [...] resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents, but which is potentially transmissible to their offspring.”

What is one characteristic their parents don’t have that the two boys share?

A) Both boys started talking in full sentences at only 4 months old, after months of not talking at all.

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