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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 Winnie say the stranger looks like?

2. What does the constable say about the man in the yellow suit?

3. What does Jesse ask Winnie to do?

4. What is the constable doing when he discovers Winnie is in the cell instead of Mae?

5. What does the stranger say people came to believe about this family that didn't age?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the stranger act when he goes to the Foster house?

2. What does the man say about the people who took Winnie and what does he insinuate about them?

3. How is Winnie treated by her family the day after her return?

4. What is the plan Jesse tells Winnie and what does she add to the plan?

5. What is revealed about the constable during his conversations with the stranger?

6. Why does it take a long time for Winnie to fall asleep?

7. What is Tuck's reaction as he watches the stranger lying on the ground after Mae hits him? Explain the reaction.

8. What is the advantage Winnie gains from the situation at the jail with regard to children her own age?

9. What's the reaction of Winnie's family when the constable tells them that Winnie had apparently gone with the Tucks of her own free will?

10. What are the conditions of the trade the stranger proposes?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

What is it that Tuck tries to explain to Winnie about life and death? How does Winnie come to realize the truth of Tuck's words?

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