Tuck Everlasting Chapters 10 - 13

In Chapter 10, Winnie, we are told, grew up with _________, something she was used to, unlike the Tucks.

• money

• animals

• siblings

• order

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

How were the dishes in Mae Tuck's kitchen described?

• Neatly stacked into little matching sets.

• Stacked in perilous towers without the least regard for their varying dimensions.

• Strewn around the house, willy nilly.

• Placed in tidy little stacks according to size and function.

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The green sofa "lolled alone in the center" of the living room was compared to

• a soft bed-like mattress,

• a mossy fallen log,

• a life-size hunk of moldy cheese,

• the one at Winnie's house,

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What literary devices are used in the following excerpt from Tuck Everlasting"?

...three armchairs and an elderly rocker stood about aimlessly, like strangers at a a party, ignoring each other.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The following excerpt is an example of _________________.

Her sewing; patches and scraps of bright cloth; half-completed quilts and braided rugs; a bag of cotton batting with wisps of its contents, like snow, drifting into cracks and corners; the arms of the sofa webbed with strands of thread and dangerous little needles.

• personification

• oxymoroan

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which literary devices are used in this excerpt from Tuck Everlasting?

For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage...

• Hyperbole

• Anadiplosis

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

How long did Mae say she and her family had lived in the Tree Gap area?

• 10 years

• 15 years

• 20 years

• 30 years

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Mae referred to her family's immortality as both a

• handicap and strength.

• blessing and a curse.

• inconvenience and convenience

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How did Winnie's opinion of the Tucks change in Chapter 11 as they sat around eating?

• She went from being terrorized to feeling comfortable.

• She went from being okay to being fully relaxed.

• She went from being accepting to asking to go home.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Tuck made the following comment: "There's a good deal to be said, and I think we better hurry up and say it. I got a feeling there ain't a whole lot of time." This is an example of _____________.

• imagery

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• resolution

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9