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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What member of the Tuck group did not drink from the spring?

2. What is Winnie doing when the stranger comes to the Foster's gate?

3. Why does Mae say Winnie has to go home with them?

4. When does Mae say they'll take Winnie home?

5. What does Winnie discover that Jesse and Miles wore to go swimming?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tuck's reaction when Winnie arrives with Mae and the boys?

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

3. What is Winnie's reaction and explanation for the mess at the Tuck house?

4. The author compares the first week of August to a Ferris wheel. What does the author say is the similarity?

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

6. Why does Winnie say she will go with the Fosters willingly?

7. Why does Winnie say she wishes she had brothers or sisters?

8. What are the changes that occur when the road to Treegap becomes the "property of people?"

9. What do Mae and the boys do to Winnie after she was asking for a drink from the spring?

10. What is the question posed about land ownership?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Tucks have never been able to settle down anywhere for long while the Fosters have always lived in the same house on the same land. Compare this aspect of the two families, including the impact of their different lives on others.

Essay Topic 2

Jesse and Miles are brothers but have very different attitudes about what they must do with their immortality. Discuss these differences in detail.

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of the man in the yellow suit to this story? Why is the man never named?

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