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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing Mae says to Tuck upon waking?
(a) Jesse and Miles are planning a picnic.
(b) We need to clean the cobwebs.
(c) We're all going to the river.
(d) The boys will be home tomorrow.

2. What is it that Winnie discovers lives in the table drawer at the Tuck home?
(a) A mouse.
(b) An elf.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A cricket.

3. Tuck says that his family is no longer part of life, but are like what?
(a) A boat going across a pond.
(b) A horse pulling a wagon.
(c) Rocks beside the road.
(d) Water being recycled.

4. What does Winnie discover that Jesse and Miles wore to go swimming?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their swimsuits.
(c) Their clothes.
(d) Their underwear.

5. What does the author say about the sunsets of this first week of August?
(a) That there is too little color.
(b) That there is too much color.
(c) That the color is perfect.
(d) That the sun glares at sunset.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are used to describe the fingers of the stranger?

2. Where does Tuck say is the best place to talk?

3. Which of the following is NOT on the list of things a traveler would find in the woods?

4. What time does the stranger appear at the Foster's gate?

5. What is the sound that makes Winnie stop crying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the analogy Tuck explains of the pond?

2. How and why does Winnie's attitude about the Tucks suddenly change?

3. Give two examples of imagery in the prologue.

4. What does the stranger ask Winnie first and what does this seem to indicate?

5. What is the foreshadowing related to the spring itself?

6. What is Mae's response when Tuck tells her that she shouldn't ride into town?

7. What is the music Winnie, her grandmother and the stranger hear? What do they believe it to be?

8. What could Mae mean when she says that she, her husband and her sons have looked the same for eighty-seven years?

9. What does Tuck mean when he says that Winnie is a "real, honest-to-goodness, natural child?"

10. What does Mae tell Tuck she plans to do while in Treegap?

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