Tuck Everlasting Unit Exam Practice

Tuck Everlasting Exam Review

Some questions will come from the skill lessons/videos.

From the Skills

Some questions will require you to think back about to the story.

From the Text

Protagonist

The protagonist of a story is the main character who traditionally undergoes some sort of change. He or she must usually overcome some opposing force. The protagonist is Winnie Foster who is only ten years old. She is at the stage of life where she is beginning to stretch her wings and look to the world outside her home. However, because she is an only child, her parents are reluctant to let her go, which only makes Winnie more determined to do so. She learns all about the great circle of life the Tucks take her home, and she also learns about friendship and love.

The Tucks are also the protagonists, because they are the ones who teach both Winnie and the reader about the value of following the cycles that life presents and never telling the secret of the spring. They are simple people, but they understand what life is really all about.

Antagonist

The antagonist of a story is the force that provides an obstacle for the protagonist. The antagonist does not always have to be a single character or even a character at all. The antagonist is the Man in the Yellow Suit who wants the secret of the spring so badly that he would cheat, lie, steal and maybe even kill to get it.

Another Antagonist is the human desire to live forever no matter what the consequences. The temptation to drink from the spring is so great that anyone who knows about it would do so without a thought for what they might face in a life that never ends.

Climax

The climax of a plot is the major turning point that allows the protagonist to resolve the conflict. The climax is Mae Tuck’s escape from jail and Winnie’s decision to help her no matter the consequences, because she knows it is the right thing to do for Mae and for mankind.

Outcome

Winnie saves the Toad from a dog that would harm it and then uses the bottle of spring water Jesse had left her to keep it safe forever. She believes, if she wants to, she can find the spring when she is seventeen, drink from it, and then find Jesse. However, the Tucks return to Treegap in 1948 and discover that Winnie had chosen life with death as its result rather than life eternal. She is buried in the town cemetery and had died just two months before the Tucks returned. They feel terribly sad and know that Jesse will, too, but they travel on knowing they’ll never return to Treegap. The tinkling of Mae’s music box can be heard as they ride away in their wagon.

Synopsis

This story is a fantasy about a family named Tuck who accidentally stumble upon a spring in a wood, which has the ability to give eternal life. They don’t realize at first what they have drunk until they realize that their bodies are not aging and they cannot be hurt or harmed in any way. They travel quietly around the countryside; never staying in one place too long so that people will not realize their secret. Into this family comes Winnie Foster, a little girl in search of freedom. She learns their secret and falls in love with them so deeply that she will do anything to protect them. The family and Winnie then must face a villain who would steal their secret for himself.

Review the events of Tuck Everlasting

Multiple Choice

Where does the majority of the story take place?

• A bustling city

• A small rural village

• A magical forest

• A futuristic dystopia

Multiple Choice

Winnie's grandmother believed the music from the woods was made by _____________.

• the wind
• squirrels
• a church choir
• elves

Multiple Choice

What bargain did the man in the yellow suit make with the Fosters?

• He would give them the music box and elves.
• He would tell them where Winnie was in exchange for the ownership of the wood.
• He would give them his share of the gold if they would tell him where the Tucks live.
• He would let the toad live if they would fix him supper.

Multiple Choice

Who steals Mae's music box?

• The constable
• The man in the yellow suit
• Winnie
• No one

Multiple Choice

When Winnie first sees Jesse he is...

• Climbing a tree
• Talking to her toad
• Drinking from a spring
• Riding his horse

Multiple Choice

Why did Tuck say, "Good girl" while he was at the gravestone?

• He was glad she chose to live a natural life and remain part of the "wheel".
• She chose the perfect spot to be buried.
• She found and married the best man.
• She had 4 wonderful children.

Multiple Choice

Why does the Man in the Yellow Suit pursue the Tuck family?

• To steal their money

• To expose their secret

• To harm them physically

• 1. To seek revenge

Multiple Choice

Why did Mae Tuck hit the man in the yellow suit?

• He took her music box.
• He was trying to cut Winnie's hair and steal her shoes.
• She felt she had to save the secret of the spring.
• Angus and Miles told her to.

Multiple Choice

How was the home lifestyle of the Tucks different from that of the Fosters?

• The Tucks were very rich and owned land.
• The Fosters traveled the world and no one in the Tuck family had left the town of Treegap.
• The Tucks all had jobs and the Fosters didn't work.
• The Tucks were messy, cluttered, dusty.  Fosters were clean, neat, orderly.

Multiple Choice

Jesse wanted Winnie to wait until she was older to drink from the spring.

• False
• True

Multiple Choice

Why does Angus look down at Winnie's grave and say, "Good girl"?

• He's thankful that she helped them escape from Tree Gap many years ago
• He's happy that she saved the toad from the dog
• He thinks she is a dog
• He's proud of her for not drinking from the spring

Multiple Choice

What reason does the man in the yellow suit give for stopping by Winnie's house on the first night?

• He's lost
• He's visiting an old friend whose name Foster
• He used to live there
• He's looking for a family, but doesn't say the name

Multiple Choice

How does the man in the yellow suit gain ownership of the wood?

• He steals it
• He says he'll bring the constable to the place where their daughter is
• He takes the Foster's to the Tuck's house
• He shows Mr. Foster where they've taken his daughter

Multiple Choice

Who killed the man in the yellow suit

• Miles
• Mae
• Angus
• Winnie

Multiple Choice

How does Winnie's character evolve throughout the novel?

• She becomes more selfish

• She becomes more adventurous

• She becomes more fearful

• She remains unchanged

Multiple Choice

What was the fantastic secret the Tucks told Winnie?

• They had not changed in 78 years because they drank from a well in town.
• They had not changed in 58 years because they drank from a spring in the wood by Treegap.

• They had not changed in 48 years because they drank from a spring in the wood by Treegap.
• They had not changed in 87 years because they drank from a spring in the wood by Treegap.

Characters within a story are established through direct and indirect characterization. You can look back at notes associated with the Prologue and Chapters 1-5.​

STEAL

Multiple Choice

The author describes the man in the yellow suit as, "tall and narrow...but his suit was a jaunty yellow." This is an example of what?

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Conflict

In ELA, internal conflict refers to a character's struggle with their own emotions, beliefs, or desires. This type of conflict creates growth and helps with character development throughout the story. External conflict arises from the character's interaction with their environment, other characters, or external forces. This type of conflict is when the character struggles with something that is outside of their inner self such as an antagonist, weather, or other real-world obstacles. External conflicts stand in the way of the character’s end goals in the story.

Open Ended

What is the difference between internal and external conflict?

Multiple Choice

What is the central conflict in "Tuck Everlasting"?

• A family feud

• A quest for treasure

• The pursuit of eternal life

• Political unrest

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict type described in the text below from "Tuck Everlasting":

"All right", said Winnie. For, she decided, there wasn't any choice. She would have to go. They would probably make her go, anyway, no matter what she said. But she felt there was nothing to be afraid of, not really. For they seemed gentle. Gentle and -in a strange way - childlike. They made her feel old. And the way they spoke to her, the way they looked at her, made her feel special.

• Internal Conflict:
  Winnie is talking to herself about whether she should go with the Tucks or not.

• External Conflict:
  Winnie is talking to herself about whether she should go with the Tucks or not.

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict type described in the text below from "Tuck Everlasting":

Then the shouting behind them stopped abruptly, and in the midst of the sudden silence came Mae’s voice, flat and cold. “You leave that child be,” she said. Winnie stared. Mae was standing just outside the doorway. She held Tuck’s long-forgotten shotgun by the barrel, like a club.

• Internal Conflict:
  Mae is not sure if she should protect Winnie.

• External Conflict:
  Mae protects Winnie from the man in the yellow suit.

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict type described in the text below from "Tuck Everlasting":

"See?" said Winnie to the toad. "That's just what I mean. It's like that every minute. If I had a sister or a brother, there'd be someone else for them to watch. But, as it is, there's only me. I'm tired of being looked at all the time. I want to be by myself for a change."

• Internal Conflict:
  Winnie is struggling with being an only child with all attention on her.

• External Conflict:
  Winnie is struggling to build a friendship with the toad.

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict type described in the text below from "Tuck Everlasting":

He pressed the little bottle into her hands and Winnie took it, closing her fingers over it.

• Internal Conflict:
  Winnie must decide if she will drink the spring water from the bottle.

• External Conflict:
  Winnie must decide if she will take a gift from a stranger.

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict type described in the text below from "Tuck Everlasting":

“Jesse, wait!” she whispered breathlessly, for all at once she had the answer. “I can help! When your mother climbs out the window, I’ll climb in and take her place. I can wrap myself up in her blanket, and when the constable looks in, he won’t be able to tell the difference. Not in the dark. I can hump up and look a lot bigger. Miles can even put the window back. That would give you time to get away! You’d have at least till morning!

• Internal Conflict:
  Winnie must decide if she will run away tonight.

• External Conflict:
  Winnie must decide if she will commit a crime to protect Mae from being exposed.

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict type described in the text below from "Tuck Everlasting":

Winnie had killed a wasp once, in fear and anger, just in time to spare herself a stinging. She had slammed at the wasp with a heavy book, and killed it. And then, seeing its body broken, the thin wings stilled, she had wished it were alive again. She had wept for that wasp.

• Internal Conflict:
  Winnie is remembering how she felt when killing an animal and comparing that to killing a person.

• External Conflict:
  Winnie is struggling weather she should kill the man like she did to the wasp.

Vocabulary Terms Review

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best definition of

"illiterates"

• without planning

• unschooled people

• frightening

• boldly

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best definition of

"epilogue"

• without planning

• unschooled people

• frightening

• conclusion

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best definition of

"tangent"

• without planning or control

• determinedly

• departure or digression

• constant

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best definition of

"decisively"

• boldly

• determinedly

• annoying

• constant

• Review of word choice, imagery, and setting are related to figurative language.

• What are the recurring images within Tuck Everlasting and their respective meaning.

Figurative Language and Symbolism

Multiple Choice

"...Winnie tipped the water onto the cracked earth at the gate. It sucked it in immediately..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"...and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"The sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What happens to Winnie when she returns home from the Tuck's house?

• She is put in jail
• She is put on trial
• Her parents become even more overprotective
• She is finally allowed to play with other children 

Multiple Choice

"...streaks of light swam and danced and wavered..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"A bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"Everything is a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"If people knowed about the spring down there in Treegap, they'd all coming running like pigs to slops."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personfication

Multiple Choice

The quote, "Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she's always wished she had." is and example of...

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Motif

Multiple Choice

The following quote is what kind of figurative language?

"The toad bounced and landed- plop! just beyond the fence."

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"The sun was only just opening its own eye...."

• Simile
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Personification

When writing about the text we utilize RACES!!

Multiple Choice

What is one way to cite evidence?

• Copy word for word without quotes

• Use quotation marks to copy text

• Just write anything

Multiple Choice

What is another way to cite text evidence?

• Paraphrase or restate the text

• Copy what your partner wrote

• Write what the teacher said

Multiple Choice

When writing a summary, you should:

• Write a new fact

• Sum up what you just said

• Who needs a summary?

Multiple Choice

Transitions like, "For Example...", "In the text it states...", "According to the author...", "In paragraph ___ of the article, it states..." are all ways to introduce

• Explanation

• Evidence

• Summarizing

• None of the Above

Multiple Choice

What part of this evidence sentence should be deleted:
"I found this evidence to prove..."

• this evidence

• I found

• to prove

• the punctuation is wrong

Multiple Select

The job of the explanation in a short constructed paragraph is to...

• Show how the evidence connects to the answer

• Prove that the answer is incorrect and look at opposite sides

• Explain your point of view and opinion

• Explain the evidence and expand on your answer

Multiple Choice

"As a result", "Therefore", "As Such" are all transitions used in the...

• last sentence of the paragraph

• first sentence of the paragraph

• to introduce explanation

• all of the above

Open Ended

Why should we use RACES when answering short response questions?

Poll

Would you recommend "Tuck Everlasting" to one of your friends outside of school?

• Yes

• Maybe

• No