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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 kind of songs does Jesse sing?
(a) Rock and Roll.
(b) Country songs.
(c) Funny songs.
(d) Sad songs.
2. What member of the Tuck group did not drink from the spring?
(a) The cat.
(b) The horse.
(c) Jesse.
(d) The toad.
3. What does the author say about the sunsets of this first week of August?
(a) That the color is perfect.
(b) That there is too little color.
(c) That the sun glares at sunset.
(d) That there is too much color.
4. What had been the Tucks' plan?
(a) To open a store.
(b) To raise cattle.
(c) To farm.
(d) To fish.
5. What does Mae use for a towel after she washes her face in the stream?
(a) The bottom of her dress.
(b) Her shawl.
(c) The horse blanket.
(d) A towel.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Winnie do when she passes by the strange man after having been kidnapped by the Tucks?
2. What does Tuck say would happen if people found out about the spring?
3. How old is Winnie?
4. To what ride does the author compare the first week of August?
5. What kind of pet does Winnie say she might like to have?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tuck mean when he says that Winnie is a "real, honest-to-goodness, natural child?"
2. What could Mae mean when she says that she, her husband and her sons have looked the same for eighty-seven years?
3. Why does Winnie decide not to run away?
4. What is Winnie's reaction and explanation for the mess at the Tuck house?
5. Why does Jesse say that it feels "fine" to tell somebody the story of the remarkable spring?
6. What is Mae's response when Tuck tells her that she shouldn't ride into town?
7. What is Winnie's reaction to being kidnapped?
8. List an instance of foreshadowing in the prologue of the book and tell what this foreshadowing seems to indicate.
9. What does the author say would likely be found by a traveler who entered the woods near the Fosters' house?
10. What is the significance of the dream Tuck is having when Mae wakes him up?
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