Tuck Everlasting Prologue - Chapter 3

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

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Who made the road to the village of Treegap?

• Bears trod a path that people later followed.

• Cows/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.

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What is the special object that Mae Tuck keeps in her pocket?

• a pocket knife

• a music box

• a gold nugget

• a lucky rabbit's foot

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

• True

• False

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

• her grandmother

• a toad

• her father

• the gnats

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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

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In Chapter 4, a stranger talks to Winnie. Who does he say he's looking for?

• Winnie

• the Foster's

• the Tuck's

• He never really says who, he only says he's looking for a family.

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What do Winnie, her grandmother, and the stranger hear?

• cows in the wood

• wolves howling in the wood

• a strange melody or music coming from the wood

• voices singing in the wood

The stranger is happy after he hears the music. What can the reader infer from his happiness?

• that he really likes music

• that he believes he found what he was looking for

• that he enjoyed his conversation with Winnie

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“It was the only living thing in sight except for a stationary cloud of hysterical gnats suspended in the heat above the road.” This is an example of what figurative language?

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

• simile

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