“Tuck Everlasting” Test - Mulvane USD 263
Tuck Everlasting Questions
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
1. The story begins in _______.
a. spring
b. 1802
c. August
d. the 21st century
1. Mae Tuck, Winnie Foster, and the stranger are _________.
a. related by marriage
b. not connected in the beginning
c. distant relatives reunited by the spring
d. good friends, but just don’t know it
2. The name of the town is ________.
a. The Gap
b. Treetown
c. Fosterville
d. Treegap
3. Mae Tuck is excited about her sons, ____________, coming home.
a. Jesse and Miles
b. James and Mike
c. Jesse and Mike
d. James and Miles
4. Mae’s husband, Tuck, _________________.
a. would rather be sleeping
b. is excited about the visit too
c. is more concerned about breakfast
d. got up with Mae to help her get ready
5. Winnie Foster talks to a toad because _____________.
a. she is a very outgoing, friendly child
b. her mother and grandmother sent her outside to play
c. she is angry
d. she likes toads
6. Winnie is upset because ______.
a. her mother and grandmother treat her like a child
b. she wants to go to play in the forest
c. she wants to play outside and no one will let her
d. she isn’t allowed to talk to toads
7. The stranger stops to speak to Winnie to find out_____________.
a. who lives in the forest
b. if she knows the Tuck family
c. if she likes catching fireflies
d. information about a family for which he is searching
8. The sound that interrupts the conversation between Winnie’s grandmother and the stranger is that of __________, according to the grandmother.
a. a music box
b. the band
c. elves
d. the radio
9. The following morning Winnie is still upset and decides to ____________.
a. run away forever
b. find the toad and talk again
c. go to the forest and maybe even run away
d. go tell the stranger of her adventures
10. In the clearing of the forest, Winnie finds __________.
a. another toad
b. the stranger
c. Mae Tuck
d. Jesse Tuck
11. When it is discovered that Winnie knows of the Tuck’s secret water, Mae ___________.
a. panics and screams
b. shakes Winnie, making her promise never to tell
c. tosses Winnie onto the horse, taking her with them
d. sends her home to her parents
12. When Winnie first realizes she has been taken, she _____________.
a. stays rather calm, trying to figure out what to do
b. screams and yells for help
c. begins to cry in fear
d. yells for help from the stranger
13. When Winnie does begin to cry, Mae calms her with _________.
a. candy
b. the music box
c. a ride on the horse
d. a hug
14. How long ago had the Tucks drunk the water?
a. eighty years
b. one hundred years
c. ninety-five years
d. eighty-seven years
15. The Tucks felt relieved about telling someone of their situation. _________ was the first to react by saying “It feels so fine to tell somebody!”
a. Miles
b. Mae
c. Jesse
d. Tuck
16. Upon their arrival home, the first thing that Miles and Jesse do is________________.
a. jump into the pond to swim
b. run around chasing each other
c. tell their father about their adventures
d. relax in their home
17. Tuck’s reaction to Winnie is that of _____________.
a. worry
b. happiness
c. anger
d. sorrow
18. The Tuck home is full of wooden toys, bowls, spoons, and forks for them to _______.
a. use
b. give away
c. sell
d. share with Winnie
19. How often did the Tuck boys come home to visit their parents?
a. every year
b. once every other year
c. every August
d. every ten years, the first week in August
20. Tuck took Winnie to the pond because __________.
a. it would be a good place to talk
b. it was a possessed and would help them find answers
c. they could get away from Jesse and Miles
d. he needed to go fishing
21. At the end of Tuck and Winnie’s talk, why was Miles so “excited”?
a. He was hungry and wanted the fish to eat
b. He wanted to see Winnie
c. He feared for their safety
d. Someone had taken their horse
22. Throughout the night, Winnie is visited by three of the Tucks. Who came to see her?
a. Jesse, Miles, Mae
b. Jesse, Tuck, Miles
c. Mae, Tuck, Jesse
d. Tuck, Mae, Miles
23. Winnie sleeps ____________.
a. in Miles’ bed
b. in Jesse’s bed
c. in Mae and Tuck’s bed
d. on the couch
24. When Jesse comes to visit Winnie, he wants to talk to her about _________.
a. marrying him right away so that they would be together
b. drinking the water the next day
c. drinking the water and marrying him when she is older
d. going back home to her family
25. The stranger in the yellow suit talks to the Fosters about where Winnie is and convinces them that they should give him ________ in exchange for the information.
a. money
b. a horse
c. the woods by Treegap
d. the water from the spring so that he may stay young
26. _______________ went with the stranger to the Tuck’s to get Winnie.
a. Her father
b. Jesse
c. The constable
d. No one
27. Miles and Winnie go fishing in the morning to catch breakfast, however, Winnie’s fish __________ and Miles’ fish _______________.
a. gets away/gets let go
b. gets away/gets away
c. gets let go/gets let go
d. gets let go/gets away
28. Miles tells Winnie about his daughter, Anna, and that _______________.
a. she hated fishing
b. she was dead now
c. he used to take her fishing
d. she was afraid of fish
29. Miles and Winnie tell the Tucks that _________________.
a. the fish weren’t biting at all
b. they didn’t catch anything worth keeping
c. the fish got away
d. they didn’t go fishing
30. The stranger arrives at the Tuck house to ___________________.
a. safely return Winnie to her home because he is so worried about her
b. trick them into giving Winnie back to her family
c. steal their horse again
d. convince them to tell him where the “fountain of youth” was in the woods
31. Mae Tuck is so upset with the stranger she ____________.
a. hits him with a gun
b. shoots him with the gun
c. kicks him in the knee
d. threatens to arrest him
32. After Mae dealt with the stranger, the constable _________________.
a. thanked her
b. left and went back to Treegap
c. told her she was a good shot
d. took her to jail
33. The stranger stays behind with the Tucks so that they can _________.
a. beat him up for what he had done
b. take care of him in hopes that he wouldn’t die
c. feed him breakfast
d. get the deed for the woods back from him
34. Who comes to see Winnie to tell her of the Tuck’s plan?
a. Miles
b. the constable
c. Jesse
d. Tuck
35. What does the person in #35 bring to Winnie and why?
a. a bottle of the water so that she may drink it in order to be with him
b. a gun so that she can protect herself
c. a toad because she loves them so much
d. news of the death of the stranger because they would kill Mae for it
36. Winnie waits until_________ and sneaks out to meet Jesse and save Mae.
a. dark
b. morning
c. midnight
d. bedtime
37. Miles removed the window of Mae’s cell with a __________________.
a. sledge hammer to break the bars
b. hammer to remove the nails
c. saw to cut the bars
d. block of wood to pry the bars apart
38. Once Mae is out of her cell, ___________.
a. Winnie is boosted into the cell
b. the Tucks run away with Winnie
c. Winnie begins to cry
d. the constable catches them
39. Winnie returns home and saves the toad by ____________________.
a. moving him out of the road
b. taking him home
c. putting the water on him
d. taking him back outside
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