Vocabulary
What is melancholy?
A. a happy feeling
B. a sad feeling
C. a sudden change in course
d. comfortably warm
B. a sad feeling
At the center of the story....the things that connects everyone and everything in the story is the ___
A. Wood
B. Village
C. House
D. Music Box
A. the wood
How long has it been since Mae went to Treegap?
A. 10 years
B. 87 years
C. 15 years
D. This is the first time Mae is going to Treegap.
A. 10 years
True or False
In chapter 3, Winnie thinks about running away.
True
What does the stranger ask Winnie about?
A. a family
B. the wood
C. her father
D. music
A. a family
What is oppressive?
A. something comfortable
B. unwelcome visit
C. a gloomy feeling
D. something uncomfortable or intense
D. something uncomfortable or intense
Why wasn't Winnie curious about the woods?
A. Her grandmother told her about it.
B. She often goes into the woods to talk to the toad.
C. She had lived there her whole life and "nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you."
D. She is curious but she can't leave the garden.
C. She had lived there her whole life and "nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you."
What was the one pretty thing Mae owned?
A. music box
C. mirror
D. brooch
D. garden
A. music box
Who does Winnie talk to at the beginning of chapter 3?
A. the toad
B. her grandmother
C. the stranger
D. her mother
A. the toad
What do Winnie, her grandmother, and the stranger hear?
A. the cows making a path around the wood
B. the villagers walking through the wood
C. music coming from the woods
D. elves playing music
C. music coming from the wood
What is intrusion?
A. comfortably warm
B. something uncomfortable
C. interruption or unwelcome visit
D. sudden change in course
C. interruption or unwelcome visit
"The house is so proud of itself" is what type of figurative language?
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. idiom
D. personification
D. personification
Who is Tuck and what does he dream about?
A. He is Mae's son and he's dreaming about the ash tree.
B. He is Mae's husband and he's dreaming about heaven and not ever hearing about Treegap.
C. He is a friend of the Fosters and he's dreaming about bovine picnics.
D. He is a stranger dreaming about Treegap.
B. He is Mae's husband and he's dreaming about heaven and not ever hearing about Treegap.
Why does Winnie want a brother or a sister?
A. So she has someone to play with
B. So she can show them her toad
C. So her parents and grandmother wouldn't call her name so much.
D. So she can show the stranger her siblings
C. So her parents and grandmother wouldn't call her name so much.
What does Winnie's grandmother claim is making the music they hear from the wood?
A. elves
B. music box
C. a traveling musician
D. church bells
A. elves
What is resentful?
A. interruption
B. full of anger toward someone
C. annoyed
D. sad
B. full of anger toward someone
What is Winnie's connection to the woods?
A. The Fosters own the wood.
B. Winnie likes to play in the wood.
C. The toad lives in the wood.
D. There is no connection between Winnie and the wood.
A. The Fosters own the wood.
What do we find out when Mae does not look in the mirror?
A. Her appearance hasn't changed in 10 years.
B. She owns a tarnished brooch.
C. She is missing a tooth.
D. Her appearance hasn't changed in 87 years.
D. Her appearance hasn't changed in 87 years.
"She had come out to the fence, very cross, very near the boiling point on a day that was itself near to boiling...What does the word cross most likely mean?
A. extended from side to side
B. feeling or indicating anger
C. feeling or indicating happiness
D. Not caring at all
B. feeling or indicating anger
When Winnie is talking to the stranger and is reminded of "the stiff black ribbons that hung on the door of the cottage for her grandfather's funeral," we infer:
A. Winnie is not really paying attention to the stranger
B. Winnie misses her grandfather
C. Winnie has a sense that the stranger is bad and is suspicious of him
D. Winnie doesn't like the stranger
C. Winnie has a sense that the stranger is bad and is suspicious of him
What is exasperated?
A. Frustrated
B. Sad
C. Gloomy
D. Happy
A. Frustrated
What disaster would have happened if people had gone to the woods?
A. They would have found cows having tranquil picnics.
B. They would have found Winnie, the only child of the Fosters.
C. They would have found a giant ash tree with a spring at the root of it.
D. They would have found Mae Tuck and her family playing the music box.
C. They would have found a giant ash tree with a spring at the root of it.
"Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman..." This is an example of:
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. foreshadowing
B. metaphor
"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?
A. personification
B. metaphor
C. simile
D. idiom
The stranger seems to be quite happy when he hears the music. The reader can infer that he:
A. likes music
B. believes he found what he was looking for
C. knows the song he heard
D. enjoyed his conversation with Winnie
B. believes he found what he was looking for