| A | B |
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| metaphor | comparing two unlike objects NOT using "like" or "as" |
| author | Natalie Babbitt |
| To what does the author compare the month of August? | a ferris wheel |
| To what village does Mae Tuck travel? | Treegap |
| How often does Mae visit the village? | every ten years |
| Why does Mae go to the village? | to meet her sons |
| Who are Mae's sons? | Miles and Jesse |
| Whose family owns the Treegap wood? | Winnie Foster |
| The spring was bubbling up around what tree? | the ash tree |
| How did they try to hide the spring? | by covering it with rocks |
| How did the cows help hide the spring? | They made their road around the wood and not through it. |
| "almost never smiled except in sleep" | Mr. Tuck |
| What is Mr. Tuck's good dream? | that they all end up in heaven and never heard of Treegap |
| foreshadowing | the author's hint at something revealed later |
| "What in the world could possibly happen to me?" is an example of | foreshadowing |
| What is the one thing that Mae took with her everywhere? | a music box |
| For how long had the Tucks been like this? | 87 years |
| When we first see Winnie, she is talking to what animal? | a toad |
| Why was her grandmother yelling at her? | not to sit on the grass and get dirty or stay outside and get too hot |
| Why does Winnie wish for a sister or brother? | it would be someone else that her parents/grandparents could watch |
| What does Winnie want to do? | run away |
| Who comes to the Fosters' gate at sunset? | a stranger |
| Describe the stranger. | remarkable tall and narrow, long chin, apologetic beard, jaunty yellow suit, black hat, dry gray hair |
| As the stranger was talking to Winnie and her grandmother, what do they hear? | the tinkling of Mae's music box |
| What does Winnie's grandmother call the music box music? | elf music |
| Who does Winnie meet in the wood? | Jesse Tuck |
| How old does Jesse say he is when Winnie asks? | 104, then 17 |
| How old is Winnie? | 10, almost 11 |
| What did Winnie see Jesse do that he told her she could NOT do? | drink the bubbling water |
| When Mae and Miles join Jesse and Winnie in the wood, what do they do? | take Winnie |
| Why did the Tucks take Winnie? | If she had yelled, someone might have come and seen them. |
| Who saw the Tucks as they left the wood with Winnie? | the man in the yellow suit |
| What does Mae pull out to calm Winnie? | the music box |
| How did the Tucks find the spring? | They were looking for a place to begin a farm (at the edge of the woods), but the wood never ended. When they tired, they stopped in what is now the wood and found the spring. |
| Who all drank the spring? | All the Tucks, the horse, but not the cat |
| What did Pa do to the tree? | carved a T |
| Once out of the wood, what did the Tucks build? | a house for Mae and shacks for Jesse and Miles for when they begin their families |
| What was the first evidence that something was different? | Jesse was sawing in a tree and fell out. He was not hurt. |
| What happened with the hunters and the horse? | Hunters shot the horse thinking it was a deer. The bullet went straight through and didn't even leave a mark. |
| What happened to Pa? | He got bitten by a snake, but it didn't affect him. |
| What else happened to Jesse? | He ate poison toadstools, but nothing happened to him. |
| What happened to Mae? | She cut herself slicing bread, but no injury. |
| What really convinced the Tucks that something was odd? | After 20 years no one had aged. |
| What happened to Miles when he was around 40? | He was married with two children, but still looked 22. His wife thought he had dealt with the devil, left him, and took the children. |
| What did the Tucks' friends feel about them not changing? | They thought it black magic. |
| What did the Tucks later find out about the T? | The tree had not grown; the T was in the same place. |
| What is Mr. Tuck's name? | Angus |
| What did Angus do after they saw the tree had not grown? | He shot himself through the heart, and nothing happened. |
| Why was Miles concerned about Jesse making their life seem good? | Miles was afraid that Winnie would want to drink of the spring. |
| Who overheard the Tucks telling Winnie their story? | the man in the yellow suit |
| When do the Tuck boys always come home? | the first week in August every year |
| What was stolen from the Tuck's home? | the horse |
| Who stole the Tucks' horse? | the man in the yellow suit |
| Who told Winnie's folks about her captors? | the man in the yellow suit |
| What was Jesse's proposal to Winnie? | He proposed that she drink of the spring when she was 17 and then marry him. |
| What was the proposal the man in the yellow suit gave the Fosters? | He said he would tell them where Winnie was if they give him the wood. |
| Who went to save Winnie? | the man in the yellow suit and the constable |
| What was unusual about Winnie's kidnapping? | The constable had been at his job 15 years and had never had a child kidnapped. |
| Who was Anna? | Miles' daughter |
| How old would Anna be? | 80 |
| How old would Miles' son be? | 82 |
| How was the man in the yellow suit connected to the Tucks' story? | His grandmother's best friend had been Miles' wife. |
| What does the man in the yellow suit intend to do with the wood? | He wants to sell the water. |
| What had tipped off the man in the yellow suit? | He had heard Mae's music box in the wood as he was retracing the steps. Anna had taught the song to his grandmother. |
| What did Mae do to the man in the yellow suit? | She hit him in the head with a shotgun. The constable came up immediately afterward. |
| What was the problem with Mae's crime? | If the man in the yellow suit died, she would go to the gallows. If the went to the gallows, the world would see that she could not die. |
| How will Mae get out of jail? | Miles is going to cut out the window. |
| When Winnie meets Jesse again in the wood, what does he give her? | a bottle of the water to keep until she is 17 |
| What helped in the escape attempt? | the thunder and lightning |
| What bothered Winnie's toad? | a brown dog |
| What did Winnie do for the toad? | She poured Jesse's water over it. |
| How did Winnie feel about using Jesse's water? | That if the story was true, there would be more when she turned 17. |
| When Mae and Angus do return to Treegap, what do they find in place of the wood? | a gas station |
| What had happened to the tree? | Lightning hit it; then they had to bulldoze it all out. |
| What was Jesse looking for when they returned to town in 1950? | evidence of Winnie/her grave |
| Did Jesse really want her to drink? | No, he liked her, but he wanted her to have a normal life. |
| Leaving the cemetery, what do the Tucks see? | a toad |
