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Getting Around the Book
Vocabulary
100
Who owns a music box?
Mae Tuck
100

At the beginning of the story, the man in the yellow suit hears music while talking to Winnie and her grandmother. As he walks away, he hums the melody. What can we infer about the man in regards to the music?

That he heard the song before and he walked away with intense satisfaction.

100
Who brings Winnie a bottle of spring water?
Jesse
100
Is this story fiction or nonfiction?
Fiction
100

What vocabulary words means "a state of disorganization or untidiness" that used to describe the Tuck's house?

Disarray

200

Who feels that not being able to die is the worst thing that could happen?

Bonus: Who has the most carefree attitude about living forever?

Angus Tuck

Bonus: Jesse

200
Why does Miles throw the fish back?
Winnie doesn't want to see it die
200
Why do the Tucks kidnap Winnie?
To make sure she doesn't tell anyone about the spring
200
What is the climax of the story?
When Mae is broken out of jail and Winnie takes her place
200

What vocabulary word meant "a person who helps another commit a crime" that the constable called Winnie. 

accomplice

300
Who thought that people should do something important while living on Earth?
Miles Tuck
300

At the beginning of the story, Winnie is tossing rocks at a toad and talking about running away. She was at the boiling point. What can we infer about how Winnie was feeling? 

She was angry and frustrated. 

300
Why did Mae hit the man in the yellow suit?
Because he was trying to take Winnie and make her drink the water
300

Why did the author include a prologue in the story?

To introduce the three main parts of the plot. To give background information to the reader.

300

What is the meaning of the word jaunty? 

Bonus: How was it used in the book?

"Having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner." 

Used to describe the Man in the yellow suit's suit. 

400

How has Winnie changed in our story? 

She's become more decisive and sure of herself and her choices. 

400
Why was it important that Mae Tuck did not go to the gallows?
Because she would not have been able to die and the family secret would have been out
400

What did the man in the yellow suit want from the Fosters in exchange for Winnie?

The Foster's wood

400

Where is this book set? 

Bonus: What is the dialect the author uses to help us locate the setting?

Treegap in the 1800's

The author gives our characters a Southern dialect to help us get an idea where treegap is. 

400

What does the italicized word in this quote mean: "He was still asleep, and the melancholy creases that folded his daytime face were smoothed and slack..."    (Babbitt, 9). 

Sad

500

Who does the Man in the Yellow suit know where he has heard about the Tucks? 

His grandmother was friends with Miles wife (who left him). 

500

If Winnie did not take Mae's place in jail, would Mae still have tried to escape? Why or why not.

Yes because she had to protect their secret

500
Why does Jesse want Winnie to drink from the spring when she is 17?
So they can get married and spend the rest of forever together
500

What conflict do we see that is person vs the supernatural? 

The tucks vs the spring water (immortality)

500

What does this line of the poem that Winnie was thinking to herself mean? 

"Stone walls do not a prison make."

You do not have to be in Prison to feel like a prisoner. The Tucks feel like prisoners because they can not die. A prison is just physical, but its the feeling that makes you the prisoner.