Show:
Literary Analysis
Inferential Analysis
Initial Understanding
Constructing Meaning
Miscellaneous
100
Why did the Tucks take Winnie to their home?
To explain why she shouldn't drink from the spring or tell others about it.
100
What are the gallows?
Something used to hang (execute) people.
100
How often do all the Tucks come back together?
Every ten years during the first week of August.
100
Who was the dearest of the Tucks, according to Winnie?
Angus Tuck
100
What is point of view of this novel?
Third person limited
200
The turning point in the story occurred when...
When Mae hit the man in the yellow suit on the head.
200
Tuck explained to Winnie that life was like a what?
A wheel
200
How do the Tucks keep people from noticing their perpetual youth?
They move to a new house every twenty years or so.
200
What did Miles tell Winnie he wanted to do someday?
He wanted to do something important.
200
What color suspenders was Jesse wearing when Winnie first saw him?
Green
300
When did the whole story take place (except for the prologue and epilogue)?
The first week of August.
300
When did Jesse know that Winnie was a Foster?
When she told him she could come to the wood whenever she wanted.
300
Why did Jesse want Winnie to drink the spring water when she turned 17?
He wanted to marry her and travel the world together.
300
Why was the Fosters' wood bulldozed at the end of the novel?
Because lightning struck the big ash tree.
300
In what decade does most of the story take place?
1880's
400
How do most readers probably feel at the end of the story?
Somewhat sad.
400
How did the man in the yellow suit suspect he was in the right place to find the Tucks?
He heard the music from the music box.
400
Why did Winnie pour the water over the toad?
Because she wanted to protect it forever.
400
Why was the Foster cottage referred to as the "touch-me-not cottage"?
It was perfectly kept and seemed to discourage visitors.
400
What is the name of Miles's daughter?
Anna
500
Why were the Tucks glad to have Winnie in their house?
She was like a growing child.
500
Why did Winnie tell the constable she had wanted to go with the Tucks?
So the Tucks wouldn't be charged with kidnapping.
500
Where did Angus Tuck explain their eternal lives to Winnie?
In a rowboat on the pond.
500
How did the Tucks discover that Winnie believed everlasting life was not desirable?
Tuck found her cemetery plot and tombstone.
500
What's the only instrument Mrs. Woolslare can actually play?
A drum set