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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 color are Jesse's suspenders?

2. Who carries Winnie after she's tired?

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

4. What is the smell that comes from the wardrobe in the Tucks' bedroom?

5. Why do people usually go around the woods?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Winnie decide not to run away?

8. Why do the Fosters believe the spring words?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The Tucks have never been able to settle down anywhere for long while the Fosters have always lived in the same house on the same land. Compare this aspect of the two families, including the impact of their different lives on others.

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of the man in the yellow suit to this story? Why is the man never named?

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