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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Winnie learn about Augustus Tuck trying to kill himself to prove whether he was truly immortal?
(a) He cut off his foot.
(b) He shot himself in the heart.
(c) He refused to eat.
(d) He ate poisoned mushrooms.

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

4. Why do people usually go around the woods?
(a) The road is filled with thorns.
(b) The Fosters own the land and people are scared of them.
(c) The road goes around the woods and the Fosters own it.
(d) The road goes around the woods and they're scary.

5. What does the author say accompanies the frequent nighttime lightning?
(a) Only thunder.
(b) Neither thunder nor rain.
(c) Both thunder and rain.
(d) Only rain.

6. What member of the Tuck group did not drink from the spring?
(a) The toad.
(b) The cat.
(c) Jesse.
(d) The horse.

7. Why does Jesse tell Winnie that she cannot have a drink of the water?
(a) He says her father wouldn't like it.
(b) He says it's dirty.
(c) He says it tastes bad.
(d) He says it's all gone.

8. What is Mae leading when she comes into the thicket?
(a) A dog.
(b) A horse.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A cow.

9. How many years ago did the Tucks come to the area?
(a) 43.
(b) 18.
(c) 87.
(d) 104.

10. "Where" is the first week of August?
(a) Both at the very top of summer and the top of the live-long year.
(b) At the very top of the live-long year.
(c) At the very top of summer.
(d) Neither at the very top of summer nor at the top of the year.

11. How many brothers and sisters does Winnie Foster have?
(a) Four.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

12. What is Winnie doing when the stranger comes to the Foster's gate?
(a) Catching fireflies.
(b) Eating supper.
(c) Talking to a toad.
(d) Waiting for Mae Tuck to pass by.

13. What does Tuck say would happen if people found out about the spring?
(a) That they would bulldoze it under.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That they would rush to it.
(d) That they would give the water to everyone.

14. Why does Mae say they had to bring Winnie home with them?
(a) To help her achieve her dream of running away from home.
(b) To help her hide from her parents.
(c) To make her understand why she has to keep the secret.
(d) To hold her for ransom.

15. Who is it that yells at Winnie that lunch is ready?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Mae Tuck.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Miles have?

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

3. Who else besides Winnie heard the story about the spring told by Jesse, Mae and Miles?

4. What does Mae use as a fan?

5. What does Winnie throw when she goes outside?

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