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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 surrounds the first house on the road to Treegap?

2. What do passersby want to do when they reach the woods?

3. Who carries Winnie after she's tired?

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

5. When does Mae say she'll be return home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Tuck's reaction when Winnie arrives with Mae and the boys?

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

10. What is Mae's response when Tuck tells her that she shouldn't ride into town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe three scenes in which there are extensive details of people, places, weather or events. Are these details necessary? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe the relationships between the members of the Tuck family. Compare those to the relationships between the members of the Foster family.

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