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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 the person say who opens the door for the stranger?
2. What color is the jailhouse painted?
3. What does Winnie pour on the toad?
4. What does the stranger say?
5. What is the constable doing when he discovers Winnie is in the cell instead of Mae?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does it take a long time for Winnie to fall asleep?
2. What is the advantage Winnie gains from the situation at the jail with regard to children her own age?
3. How has Winnie's attitude about the Tucks changed as she eats breakfast with them?
4. Why does Winnie say that Mae can never be taken to the gallows?
5. What is it that Jesse says makes him different from the rest of his family?
6. What does Winnie think about after she's poured the bottle of water on the toad?
7. How does the stranger act when he goes to the Foster house?
8. What does the man say about the people who took Winnie and what does he insinuate about them?
9. What is it about the mosquito that makes Winnie suddenly decide to keep the secret of the spring?
10. What is revealed about the constable during his conversations with the stranger?
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
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
Tuck looks at the stranger with great envy as the man seems about to die. Why does Tuck envy a man who is likely to die? Would Jesse and Miles have likely felt the same as their father?
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