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Tuck Everlasting Chapters 1-3

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why would the discovery of the spring in the middle of the woods be an immense disaster?

a)

Everyone would want to go swimming

b)

Winnie would run away.

c)

Farmers would want to buy the land.

d)

Everyone would want the water

2.

What does it mean to have a touch-me-not appearence?

a)

It is beautiful, but uninviting

b)

it is a museam

c)

People come to touch the house

d)

It is illegal to touch the house

3.

Why do you think that Tuck only smiled when he was asleep?

a)

He was dreaming of food

b)

He was dreaming of living forever

c)

He was dreaming of heaven.

d)

He was dreaming about Treegap

4.

Why does Mae only see her boys every ten years?

a)

She doesn't like to see them that much.

b)

She has no way to get anywhere

c)

She doesn't want to be recognized.

d)

She likes her girls better.

5.

What item does Mae never go anywhere without?

a)

Her second shawl

b)

Her brooch

c)

Her petticoat

d)

Her music Box

6.

How long have the Tuck's been living in immortality?

a)

10 years

b)

70 years

c)

87 years

d)

17 years

7.

Why does Winnie feel as through she is cooped up in a cage?

a)

She looks like a chicken

b)

She is stuck in her house.

c)

She has claustrophobia (afraid of small spaces)

d)

She is tired.

8.

Why does Winnie wish that she had a brother or sister?

a)

So she wouldn't get all the attention.

b)

So she would have someone to play with

c)

So she could get them in trouble.

d)

So she could share clothes with a sister.

9.

What time of year does the story take place?

a)

the beginning of summer

b)

the end of winter

c)

the first week in November

d)

the first week of August

10.

The mood or feeling at the beginning of the book is

a)

expectant - the reader is left with the feeling that something will happen, maybe something disastrous

b)

somber - the reader feels sad

c)

peaceful - the reader has a feeling of calm, as if nothing will happen

11.

Who made the road to the village of Treegap?

a)

Bears trod a path that people later followed.

b)

Cattle trod the path that people later followed, and the cowpath became the road.

c)

The Fosters built the road so it would go directly to their house.

d)

The Tucks built the road to be sure it went around the wood and not through it.

12.

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?

a)

the first house, the one with the touch-me-not appearance

b)

the road

c)

the wood

d)

the village

13.

How long has it been since Mae last went to Treegap?

a)

ten years

b)

two years

c)

she has never been to Treegap

d)

she goes every week

14.

In Chapter 1, we find out that the Tuck family has looked exactly the same for 87 years.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

"Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman..." This sentence is an example of what literary device?

a)

foreshadowing

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

16.

At the beginning of Chapter 3, who is Winnie talking to?

a)

her grandmother

b)

a toad

c)

her father

d)

the gnats

17.

Winnie tells the toad why she wants to run away. What does she tell him? Choose the best answer.

a)

Her family is overprotective.

b)

She feels trapped, like she's in a cage.

c)

She wants to do something by herself, something important, something that will make a difference in the world.

d)

all of these

18.

Do you like Tuck Everlasting so far?

a)

yes

b)

no

c)

sort-of

d)

I don't care