WorksheetsTuck Everlasting Chapters 1-3
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 14mins
Why would the discovery of the spring in the middle of the woods be an immense disaster?
Everyone would want to go swimming
Winnie would run away.
Farmers would want to buy the land.
Everyone would want the water
What does it mean to have a touch-me-not appearence?
It is beautiful, but uninviting
it is a museam
People come to touch the house
It is illegal to touch the house
Why do you think that Tuck only smiled when he was asleep?
He was dreaming of food
He was dreaming of living forever
He was dreaming of heaven.
He was dreaming about Treegap
Why does Mae only see her boys every ten years?
She doesn't like to see them that much.
She has no way to get anywhere
She doesn't want to be recognized.
She likes her girls better.
What item does Mae never go anywhere without?
Her second shawl
Her brooch
Her petticoat
Her music Box
How long have the Tuck's been living in immortality?
10 years
70 years
87 years
17 years
Why does Winnie feel as through she is cooped up in a cage?
She looks like a chicken
She is stuck in her house.
She has claustrophobia (afraid of small spaces)
She is tired.
Why does Winnie wish that she had a brother or sister?
So she wouldn't get all the attention.
So she would have someone to play with
So she could get them in trouble.
So she could share clothes with a sister.
What time of year does the story take place?
the beginning of summer
the end of winter
the first week in November
the first week of August
The mood or feeling at the beginning of the book is
expectant - the reader is left with the feeling that something will happen, maybe something disastrous
somber - the reader feels sad
peaceful - the reader has a feeling of calm, as if nothing will happen
Who made the road to the village of Treegap?
Bears trod a path that people later followed.
Cattle trod the path that people later followed, and the cowpath became the road.
The Fosters built the road so it would go directly to their house.
The Tucks built the road to be sure it went around the wood and not through it.
In the middle of page 4, Natalie Babbitt tells her readers that only three things are important. Which of the following is NOT one of those things?
the first house, the one with the touch-me-not appearance
the road
the wood
the village
How long has it been since Mae last went to Treegap?
ten years
two years
she has never been to Treegap
she goes every week
In Chapter 1, we find out that the Tuck family has looked exactly the same for 87 years.
True
False
"Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman..." This sentence is an example of what literary device?
foreshadowing
metaphor
personification
alliteration
At the beginning of Chapter 3, who is Winnie talking to?
her grandmother
a toad
her father
the gnats
Winnie tells the toad why she wants to run away. What does she tell him? Choose the best answer.
Her family is overprotective.
She feels trapped, like she's in a cage.
She wants to do something by herself, something important, something that will make a difference in the world.
all of these
Do you like Tuck Everlasting so far?
yes
no
sort-of
I don't care
