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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 news that Tuck gets urging him to come back to the house?
(a) That supper is ready.
(b) That the horse has been stolen.
(c) That Jesse hurt himself.
(d) That Winnie's parents are looking for her.

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

3. The village doesn't matter except for what two things?
(a) The preacher's house and the train station.
(b) The saloon and the general store.
(c) The jailhouse and the gallows.
(d) The school and the church.

4. How many rooms are there in the Tuck house?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

5. What do Jesse, Mae, Miles and Winnie have to eat on the way back to the Tucks' house?
(a) Wild berries.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Bologna sandwiches.
(d) Bread and cheese.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many nights does Winnie say she has spent away from home?

2. How does Mae fasten the shawl around her shoulders?

3. Which of the following was not part of the supper Winnie shares with the Tuck family her first night with them?

4. Which of these words does the author use to describe the first week of August?

5. What is it that Winnie discovers lives in the table drawer at the Tuck home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tuck mean when he says that he would get "back on the wheel" if he could?

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

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

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

8. Describe the conversation between Jesse and Winnie when Winnie asks for a drink from the spring.

9. Winnie indicates that she's going to do something the following day. What does she say she's going to do and why?

10. What is the significance of the dream Tuck is having when Mae wakes him up?

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