WorksheetsTuck Everlasting (Chapters 1-10)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who is the author of the book Tuck Everlasting?
Rodman Philbrick
R. J. Palacio
John Boyne
Natalie Babbitt
Which one describes the setting of Tuck Everlasting?
Location: Small village named Treegap near the woods
Time Period: Late 1800's when people traveled by horseback and walking
Location: Large city of Boston, Massachusetts
Time Period: The 1960's during the Vietnam War
Location: Berlin, Germany
Time Period: The late 1930's during World War II
Location: Ancient Rome
Time Period: 46-44 B.C. during the time of Julius Caesar
During the Prologue of the book, what does the author tell us that Winnie was thinking about?
She is thinking about racing horses.
She thinks about the elves playing music.
She is thinking about running away.
She is thinking about making beef stew.
Who is Winnie Foster? The author discusses this in chapter 1.
The only child of the Fosters.
The daughter of Mae Tuck.
A child spy for the man in the yellow suit.
The wife of Angus Tuck.
What type of Figurative Language is used in Chapter 1? "The house is proud of itself."
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Alliteration
Personification
In chapter 2, why doesn't Mae look in the mirror?
She has an injured eye from falling out of a tree and landing on her head.
Elves had stolen all of her mirrors so she did not have one.
Angus hid all of the mirrors after they drank from the spring.
Her appearance hadn't changed in 87 years.
In chapter 2 what type of figurative language did the author use? "Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman..."
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Assonance
Who does Winnie talk to at the beginning of chapter three?
The man in the yellow hat.
A toad.
A butterfly.
Jesse Tuck.
In chapter 4, what do Winnie, her grandmother, and the Man in the Yellow Suit think that they hear?
Jesse falling out of a tree and landing on his head.
Miles jumping into a freezing cold pond with all of his clothes on.
A strange melody of music that might be elves.
Winnie's pet toad jumping from log to log.
When we find out about the Tuck's drinking from the spring of water in chapter 7 who did NOT drink from the spring?
Miles
Their horse
Jesse
Their cat
What type of figurative language is used? "The graceful arms of the pines stretched out protectively in every direction."
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Foreshadowing
In chapter 9 when we find out the the Man in the Yellow Suit overhears the Tucks telling Winnie about the spring there is an ominous feeling. What literary device is being used when this ominous feeling is expressed by the author?
Personification
Flashback
Cliche
Foreshadowing
What happened to the Tucks when they drank from the spring?
They became magical carpenters and blacksmiths.
They became great gun fighters and warriors.
They became immortal and stopped aging.
They became extremely intelligent and telepathic.
When the Tucks began figuring out how the spring had affected them who fell out of a tree, landed on his head, but was not killed?
Miles
Jesse
Mae
Angus
When the Tucks began figuring out how the spring had affected them who shot himself with a shotgun to prove that he could not die?
Mae
Jesse
Angus
Miles
How old does Jesse tell Winnie that he is after she asks him in chapter 5?
16; 112
17; 106
22; 109
17; 104
How is the Tuck house different from the Foster house that Winnie notices?
The Tuck house is huge, clean, and orderly and the Foster house is small, dirty, and in disarray.
The Tuck house is untidy and cluttered, but the Foster house is always neat and orderly.
The Tuck house has been burned by a fire and the Foster house is brand new.
The Tuck house is filled with elves and magic spells and the Foster house is filled with Christmas decorations all year long.
What visions is Winnie haunted by in chapter 6?
Winnie is haunted by visions of poisonous toads biting her while she is in the woods.
Winnie is haunted by visions of what it would be like to be old and sickly.
Winnie is haunted by visions of the Man in the Yellow Suit chasing her through the forest.
Winnie is haunted by visions of what it would be like to be kidnapped.
What was the "strangest story that Winnie had ever heard" when the Tucks told her in Chapter 7?
A story about how the Tucks had came from New York City 96 years ago and how they had heard music from elves that drew them to a magical tree that had sap all over it that made them immortal when they touched it. The tree sap was evil however and when they became immortal it made them dangerous criminals as well.
A story about how the Man in the Yellow Suit had been chasing them all over the country for 109 years and they finally escaped him when they hid in a small village called Tree House Town. They later found out that this town was magical and everyone that lived there was immortal.
A story about how the Tucks had come from a long way to the east, looking for a place to settle. They had thought that they would start a farm when they came to the end of the trees in the forest, but the trees never seemed to end. They came to a place with a tree with knobby roots and a spring and they all took a drink, even the horse.
Choose the example from Tuck Everlasting in italics that is an example of personification. (Giving an non person object the qualities of a person).
Then the moon rose. The man came to himself and sighed. His expression was one of intense satisfaction. He put on his hat, and in the moonlight his long fingers were graceful and very white. Then he turned and disappeared down the shadowy road.
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris Wheel when it pauses in its turning.
On the left side of the first house, a square and solid cottage with a touch-me-not appearance, surrounded by grass cut painfully to the quick and enclosed by a capable iron fence some four feet high which clearly said, "Move on--we don't want you here."
"My stars!" said Winnie's Grandmother, her eyes round. "I do believe it's come again, after all these years!" She pressed her wrinkled hands together forgetting the man in the yellow suit.
