Ineed ! whoever answers first i will mark as !

refer to a wrinkle in time for a complete version of this text.

read the excerpt from chapter 3.

“she’s a little one-sided, i grant you,” mrs. murry said, “though i blame her father and myself for that. she still enjoys playing with her dolls’ house though.”

“mother! ” meg shrieked in agony.

with a sudden enthusiastic gesture calvin flung his arms out wide, as though he were embracing mega and her mother, the whole house. “how did all this happen? isn’t it wonderful? i feel as though i were just being born! i’m not alone anymore! do you realize what that means to me? ”

“but you’re good at basketball and things,” meg protested. “you’re good in school. everybody likes you.”

“for all the most unimportant reasons,” calvin said. “there hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the world that i could talk to. sure, i can function on the same level as everybody else, i can hold myself down, but it isn’t me.”

question 1
part a

what theme is developed in the excerpt?

1. to understand a child’s behavior, one must look at how the parents behave.

2. at times, people hide their true selves to be accepted by others.

3. people who are admired by others rarely experience difficulties in life.

4. parents and children mostly agree on what information to share with others.

question 2
part b

which detail from the text best supports the answer to part a?

1. “‘sure, i can function on the same level as everybody else, i can hold myself down, but it isn’t me.’”

2. “‘she’s a little one-sided, i grant you,’ mrs. murry said, ‘though i blame her father and myself for that.’”

3. “‘mother! ’ meg shrieked in agony.”

4. “‘but you’re good at basketball and things,’ meg protested. ‘you’re good in school. everybody likes you.’”