1. Winnie suspected

• she was the first person to hear the Tucks' story.

• that not all the story was true.

• she would never be allowed to leave.

2. When the Tucks came looking for a place to settle eighty-seven years ago, the wood was

• an open meadow.

• an Indian camp.

• a forest.

3. When the Tucks camped at the spring, everyone drank from it except

• the horse.
• the cat.
• Mae Tuck.

4. To mark where they had been, Pa Tuck

• piled rocks over the spring.
• carved a T on the tree trunk.
• cut some trees in the clearing.

5. The Tucks first realized there was something peculiar happening to them when

• Jesse fell out of a tree and didn't get hurt.
• the horse quit eating.
• Pa got a snake bite and was not very sick.

6. As time went by, the Tucks

• became ill sometimes but always survived.
• got tired of farming.
• never got any older.

7. Miles' wife left him because

• he wasn't a good father.
• she thought he had sold his soul to the devil.
• they had no money.

8. The Tucks had to leave their farm because their friends

• all died.
• moved away from them.
• thought they were involved in witchcraft or black magic.

9. When the Tucks found the spring again twenty years, the tree

• hadn't changed at all.
• was much larger.
• was gone.

10. The Tucks knew the spring was the source of their changelessness because

• it made a strange sound as it bubbled from the ground.
• the water still tasted strange.
• their cat died.