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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 throw when she goes outside?

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

3. What had been the Tucks' plan?

4. What does Tuck do when he's introduced to Winnie?

5. What color is the straw hat Mae puts on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Winnie's reaction to being kidnapped?

3. Why does Winnie think the simple meal she shares with the Tuck family is "luxurious?"

4. Why does Winnie say she wishes she had brothers or sisters?

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

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

7. What are the three things the author says happens that appear to be mere coincidence?

8. What do Mae and the boys do to Winnie after she was asking for a drink from the spring?

9. What is the question posed about land ownership?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jesse and Miles are brothers but have very different attitudes about what they must do with their immortality. Discuss these differences in detail.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is it that Tuck tries to explain to Winnie about life and death? How does Winnie come to realize the truth of Tuck's words?

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