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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. How often does Winnie go into the woods?

2. What is it that Mae is looking at when she first wakes on the day before Jesse and Miles are to come home?

3. Why do people usually go around the woods?

4. What kind of songs does Jesse sing?

5. Who is it that yells at Winnie that lunch is ready?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Give two examples of imagery in the prologue.

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

5. Why does Winnie decide not to run away?

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

7. What does Mae tell Tuck she plans to do while in Treegap?

8. How is it that the Tucks learned of their immortality?

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

What is the constable's attitude toward Winnie after the kidnapping? After the escapade at the jail?

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

Winnie faces a dilemma when the stranger has been injured regarding what she should wish for. What is this dilemma and what does Winnie come to realize about the situation?

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