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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 does Winnie's grandmother say is the source of the music they hear?

2. Which of the following is true of Winnie's beliefs?

3. What does the author say accompanies the frequent nighttime lightning?

4. What does the man say he's looking for?

5. What does Winnie learn about Augustus Tuck trying to kill himself to prove whether he was truly immortal?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tuck mean when he says that Winnie is a "real, honest-to-goodness, natural child?"

3. What does Mae say about the reason her family members were the ones who drank from the spring?

4. How and why does Winnie's attitude about the Tucks suddenly change?

5. Give two examples of imagery in the prologue.

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

7. What does the author say would likely be found by a traveler who entered the woods near the Fosters' house?

8. What does the stranger ask Winnie first and what does this seem to indicate?

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

10. What is the question posed about land ownership?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What part of the story does Winnie tell her family to explain her involvement with the Tuck family at the jail? Why doesn't she tell her parents the entire story?

Essay Topic 2

Why is Winnie's presence at the Tuck household so welcome? Would any child have been equally welcomed?

Essay Topic 3

List two instances of foreshadowing. What is the role of foreshadowing in literature? Is the author successful in the use of foreshadowing in this story?

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