Tuck Everlasting Ch. 22 - Epilogue

At the beginning of Chapter 22, the author, Natalie Babbitt, creates great imagery when she writes the following: the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust. What literary device does she use here?

• simile

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• metaphor

Winnie's decision that Mae Tuck must not go to the gallows signals the beginning of which part of the story's plot?

• exposition

• resolution

• falling action

• rising action

What is a gallow?

• a place where people picnic to stay of the sun.

• a jail-type structure

• a place where people are judged

• a place where criminals are hanged

In Chapter 22, for whom does Winnie go inside and fetch water?

• Mae and Tuck

• Jesse

• Miles

• a toad

Who shows up at the Foster's gate with a plan to free Mae from jail?

• Miles

• Tuck

• Jesse

• the constable

What does Jesse give Winnie at the gate during this visit?

• a ring by which to remember him

• a written copy of the plan to free Mae from jail

• a bottle of water for her frog

• a bottle of water to drink when she turns seventeen.

What does Jesse want Winnie to do with the bottle mentioned in the previous question?

• save it for desperate times.

• drink it when she turns thirteen

• drink it when she turns seventeen and find his family

• use it only in case of an emergency

Who proposed the part of the plan in which Winnie would take Mae's place in the jailhouse bed?

• Tuck

• Winnie

• Jesse

• MIles

Winnie, much like Miles, wanted to do what?

• make a difference in the world

• travel and see the world

• leave Tree Gap forever

• go back to the Tucks house and live forever.

As Winnie waited in her room, sitting in her rocking chair, she counted the minutes until she could help free Mae. The clock in the room ticked deliberately, unimpressed with anyone's impatience.

What literary device is used in the italicized words?

• simile

• personifiction

• metaphor

• alliteration