TUCK EVERLASTING Vocabulary Quiz ch1-7

What is the title of the book we are reading?

1. The road went humbly by and made its way, past cottages more and more frequent but less and less ______, into the village.

• TRANQUIL
• FORBIDDING
• BOUGH
• MELANCHOLY
• TARNISHED

2. The wood was owned bud and ______ by the Fosters in the touch-me-not cottage, and if they never wandered in among the trees, that was their affair.

• TRANQUIL
• FORBIDDING
• BOUGH
• MELANCHOLY
• TARNISHED

3. It widened and seemed to pause, suggesting ______ bovine picnics: slow chewing and thoughtful contemplation of the infinite. It went on again and came to the wood.

• TRANQUIL
• FORBIDDING
• BOUGH
• MELANCHOLY
• TARNISHED

4. Mae's husband, on his back beside her, did not stir. He was still asleep, and the ______ creases that folded his daytime face were smoothed and slack.

• TRANQUIL
• FORBIDDING
• BOUGH
• MELANCHOLY
• TARNISHED

5. Mae Tuck began to dress: three petticoats, a rusty brown skirt, an old cotton jacket, and a knitted shawl which she pinned across her bosom with a(n) ______ metal brooch.

• TRANQUIL
• FORBIDDING
• BOUGH
• MELANCHOLY
• TARNISHED

6. He laughed, gesturing in self-______ with long, thin fingers. His tall body moved continuously; a foot tapped, a shoulder twitched.

• GRIMACE
• STAGGERING
• INTENT
• DEPRECATION
• RETORTED

7. "How delightful to see you looking so fit." "And why shouldn't I be fit?" she ______, peering at him through the fading light.

• GRIMACE
• STAGGERING
• INTENT
• DEPRECATION
• RETORTED

8. She paused and peered anxiously at the toad to see how it would receive this ______ idea, but it showed no signs of interest.

• GRIMACE
• STAGGERING
• INTENT
• DEPRECATION
• RETORTED

9. The gnats were too frantic to notice these intrusions, however, and since every pebble missed its final mark, the toad continued to squat and ______ without a twitch.

• GRIMACE
• STAGGERING
• INTENT
• DEPRECATION
• RETORTED