Tuck Everlasting Test

When Winnie first met the Tucks, how long had it been since the Tucks first drank from the spring?

• 87 years

• 104 years

• 78 years

• 40 years

What item does Mae always carry?

• An old cat

• A music box

• A hairbrush

• A toad

How does Winnie first meet the Tucks?

• She hears the music box in the wood and follows the sound.

• She chases the toad into the wood.

• She wants to explore the wood, and she stumbles upon Jesse Tuck.

• She decides to run away from home forever.

What does the man in the yellow suit tell the Fosters?

• He lets them know that there is a valuable water spring in the wood.

• He tells them that he will bring Winnie back if they give him the wood.

• He tells them that the Tucks have stolen his horse.

• He tells the grandmother that the noise in the wood is not elves, but Mae’s music.

Who’s wife and children left him?

• Angus Tuck

• Miles Tuck

• The man in the yellow suit

• Jesse Tuck

How did the constable (policeman) know that Mae should be arrested?

• She admitted she was guilty.

• Tuck told him that she did it.

• The man in the yellow suit told him she was guilty.

• He saw Mae Tuck commit (do) the crime.

When Winnie was first taken by the Tucks, what helped her calm down?

• The music from Mae’s music box

• The toad

• Jesse’s smile

• The Tucks’ horse

Who has melancholy (great sadness) in the story?

• Mae Tuck

• Angus Tuck

• Jesse Tuck

• The man in the yellow suit

At the beginning of the story, why does the author describe the wood as strange?

• It’s the meeting place for the Tucks.

• Because even the cows wouldn’t go in them.

• The man in the yellow suit wants them.

• There is a huge tree in the middle of them.

True or False: Jesse wanted Winnie to wait until she was older to drink water from the spring.

• True

• False