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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many brothers and sisters does Winnie Foster have?

2. What surrounds the first house on the road to Treegap?

3. Where does Tuck say is the best place to talk?

4. What color is the straw hat Mae puts on?

5. What kind of shoes is Winnie wearing when she gets into the rowboat with Tuck?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the foreshadowing related to the spring itself?

2. Describe the conversation between Jesse and Winnie when Winnie asks for a drink from the spring.

3. What is the significance of the dream Tuck is having when Mae wakes him up?

4. What is the music Winnie, her grandmother and the stranger hear? What do they believe it to be?

5. List an instance of foreshadowing in the prologue of the book and tell what this foreshadowing seems to indicate.

6. Why does Jesse say that it feels "fine" to tell somebody the story of the remarkable spring?

7. What does Mae say about the reason her family members were the ones who drank from the spring?

8. The author compares the first week of August to a Ferris wheel. What does the author say is the similarity?

9. What is the question posed about land ownership?

10. What do Mae and the boys do to Winnie after she was asking for a drink from the spring?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the relationships between the members of the Tuck family. Compare those to the relationships between the members of the Foster family.

Essay Topic 2

Winnie faces a dilemma when the stranger has been injured regarding what she should wish for. What is this dilemma and what does Winnie come to realize about the situation?

Essay Topic 3

Jesse and Miles are brothers but have very different attitudes about what they must do with their immortality. Discuss these differences in detail.

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