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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 Miles pull from his back pocket?

2. The village doesn't matter except for what two things?

3. What does Mae say the loft of their home is used for?

4. To what ride does the author compare the first week of August?

5. What kind of shoes is Winnie wearing when she gets into the rowboat with Tuck?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Give two examples of imagery in the prologue.

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 analogy Tuck explains of the pond?

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

8. The author compares the first week of August to a Ferris wheel. What does the author say is the similarity?

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

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

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

Describe Winnie's life prior to her chance encounter with the Tuck family. How is her life different after that encounter?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of the constable in this story?

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