Wrinkle Ch 4-5 Study Questions

What is a tesseract?

A way to travel through space and time by a shortcut. Allows for fast space travel. 5th dimension that allows for the quickest travel between two points that is not a line.

Why won't Mrs. Murry and Mrs. O'Keefe miss their children as they travel to other worlds?

Because they will return five minutes before they actually ever left.

Can Mrs. Whatsit's age be counted in trillions, billions, millions, thousands, or hundreds of Earth years?

Billions 2,379,152,497 (you don't need to memorize this) :)

Describe what Meg feels the first time she travels by "wrinkling" through time.

Darkness was complete. There was no sound and no wind. She was completely alone. She couldn't even feel her body. Just as light and sound has vanished, she had too.

Why can't the children breathe as they are about to materialize on a second dimensional planet?

Everything was flat on the two dimensional planet.

What is a wrinkle?

It is a small amount of time. The book explains that time on earth is different than amount of time on other planets. When they wrinkle back they are actually back five minutes before they even left.

Describe the planet of Uriel that the children have entered.

It is light and golden. The ground is covered in new, green grass no multi-colored flowers. There are high mountains and puffy clouds. Birds are singing. There is a garden with singing creatures (head of man, body of horse, wings). There are golden moons.

What parts of planet Uriel symbolize beauty?

The light and golden color.

Are Mrs W's human? Explain

They are not human. When on earth they appear to be human so people would not be suspicious. They are from Uriel and can transform. They are white creatures with wings and can fly. Head of man. Body of horse. They were previously stars that gave up lives to battle the darkness.

What does the Happy Medium show the children about Earth that frightens them?

They see the Dark Thing covering Earth.