Q 01/05

On the planet Camazotz in A Wrinkle in Time, the all-controlling ruler called IT turns out to be what?

A) A room-sized computer

B) A masked dictator

C) A disembodied brain

D) A swarm of insects

Answer · why

C) A disembodied brain

A disembodied brain gives off a pulsing rhythm that drags every mind on the planet into step. Meg thinks it the most horrible thing she has ever seen.

Q 02/05

What was Mrs Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time before she gave up her life fighting the darkness?

A) A star

B) A comet

C) A moon

D) A planet

Answer · why

A) A star

A star is what she once was, until she exploded in an act of self-sacrifice to drive the shadow back. The children learn it just after watching anothe...

Q 03/05

At the end of A Wrinkle in Time, what does Meg have that IT lacks, letting her free Charles Wallace?

A) Anger

B) Hope

C) Faith

D) Love

Answer · why

D) Love

Love is the one weapon IT cannot understand, so Meg tells her brother again and again how much he means to her. IT's biggest mistake was claiming that...

Q 04/05

A Wrinkle in Time opens 'It was' and which words, borrowed from an 1830 Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel?

A) the best of times

B) a dark and stormy night

C) a bright cold day in April

D) a pleasure to burn

Answer · why

B) a dark and stormy night

A dark and stormy night is fiction's most mocked cliché, and the author chose it with a wink to the reader. Meg really is sitting awake while a hurric...

Q 05/05

Which author saw A Wrinkle in Time rejected by at least 26 publishers before it became a children's classic?

A) Lois Lowry

B) Ursula K. Le Guin

C) Madeleine L'Engle

D) Judy Blume

Answer · why

C) Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle was told the story was 'too different', and suspected that a girl hero in science fiction had put publishers off. The novel has neve...