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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do passersby want to do when they reach the woods?
(a) Make a lot of noise and throw a rock or two.
(b) Look for a spring.
(c) Whisper.
(d) Run.

2. How long does Mae say she and her husband have lived in their current house?
(a) About twenty years.
(b) Since they found the spring.
(c) About fourteen years.
(d) About a year.

3. Who carries Winnie after she's tired?
(a) Mae.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Miles.
(d) Tuck.

4. Who does the stranger say should go with him to get Winnie?
(a) Mr. Foster.
(b) No one.
(c) The local constable.
(d) The entire family.

5. What does Jesse ask Winnie to do?
(a) Drink from the spring the following day.
(b) Ask Tuck if she should drink from the spring.
(c) Never drink from the spring.
(d) Drink from the spring when she's seventeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true of Winnie's beliefs?

2. What is Jesse doing when Winnie first sees him?

3. What does the author say accompanies the frequent nighttime lightning?

4. What does Winnie learn would be her fate if she drank from the spring?

5. Why does the stranger say he's going to go ahead?

(see the answer key)

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