Tuck Everlasting • Prologue-Ch. 5

wander means to:

• move aimlessly or without any destination

• be still

• think about something

• choose

Answer explanation

In our book, the road wandered up hills and through meadows, and Winnie Foster wandered through the wood the first time she met Jesse.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

When is twilight?

• at sunrise

• at noontime

• just after sunset

• at night

Answer explanation

"The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died, too, as he stood there, though its remnants clung reluctantly to everything that was pale in color--pebbles, the dusty road, the figure of the man himself--turning them blue and blurry." --pg. 21 excerpt from Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Choose the best picture for meadow.

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Answer explanation

"It [the road] wandered along in curves and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down again between fringes of bee-hung clover, and then cut sidewise across a meadow." --pg. 5, excerpt from Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

immense means:

• enormous

• simplistic

• predictable

• miniscule

Answer explanation

If people had found the hidden spring in the wood, that would have been a disaster so immense, so huge, that everything would fall out of place.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Who would most likely be sent to the gallows?

• a convicted criminal

• a famous pop star

• a sick patient

• a tardy student

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

disturb means to:

• destroy the peace or tranquility of

• help things grow

• write about

• free from harm or evil

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

choose the best picture for dawn

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The old man felt awfully cross and cranky.

In this sentence, cross means:

• bored, dull

• bad-tempered, grouchy

• happy, content

• tired, sleepy

Answer explanation

"She had come out to the fence, very cross, very near the boiling point on a day that was itself near to boiling, and had noticed the toad at once." (Then she started throwing rocks at the toad...but missed on purpose) ;) . -pg. 13 excerpt from Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

The opposite of coward is:

• hero

• citizen

• host

• scaredy-cat

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

She crept down, keeping her son's Christmas gift behind her back to conceal it as best she could.

In this sentence, conceal means to:

• hide

• hoist

• drag

• pack

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4