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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Winnie's grandmother say is the source of the music they hear?
(a) A music box.
(b) A radio.
(c) A circus.
(d) Elves .

2. How often does Mae Tuck make this journey?
(a) Every ten years.
(b) Every year.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every month.

3. What does Mae say the loft of their home is used for?
(a) Mae sews there.
(b) The loft is used only for storage.
(c) Miles and Jesse do their carpentry there.
(d) Miles and Jesse sleep there when they return home.

4. Why does Mae say Winnie has to go home with them?
(a) So that she can say she's run away from home.
(b) To have dinner with the family.
(c) So that the stranger can't find her.
(d) To talk it out with Tuck.

5. What does Winnie say the music sounds like?
(a) A circus.
(b) A music box.
(c) A flute.
(d) Elves.

6. What does Winnie do when she passes by the strange man after having been kidnapped by the Tucks?
(a) Tells him she's learning to ride.
(b) Screams for help.
(c) Waves.
(d) Nothing.

7. What kind of songs does Jesse sing?
(a) Country songs.
(b) Sad songs.
(c) Rock and Roll.
(d) Funny songs.

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

9. What does Mae use as a fan?
(a) A leaf.
(b) A letter.
(c) Her handkerchief.
(d) Her hat.

10. What color is the Tuck house?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

11. What time does Mae Tuck set out for the village?
(a) At ten in the morning.
(b) At dawn.
(c) At noon.
(d) At midnight.

12. Tuck says that having Winnie visit is the best thing in how many years?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Eight.
(c) One hundred and four.
(d) Forty.

13. Who else besides Winnie heard the story about the spring told by Jesse, Mae and Miles?
(a) The stranger.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) No one.
(d) Winnie's grandmother.

14. What does Winnie learn would be her fate if she drank from the spring?
(a) She'd die.
(b) She'd become an old woman.
(c) She'd grow until she was seventeen then stop aging.
(d) She'd remain a little girl forever.

15. What color is the straw hat Mae puts on?
(a) Pink.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Grey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what ride does the author compare the first week of August?

3. What is the first thing Miles and Jesse do when they arrive home?

4. What animal is responsible for the road meandering around the woods rather than through it?

5. What are the only two living things Winnie has found on that particular morning?

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