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| a stranger wants to _________ the spring water | sell |
| Miles threw back the _______ _______ because of Winnie | rainbow trout |
| who gave a bottle of spring water to Winnie? | Jesse |
| what symbolizes the center of the universe? | a wheel |
| the number of years the Tucks remained unchanged | eighty-seven |
| what did Angus and Mae make to sell? | wooden toys |
| What did Miles remove from the window? | nails |
| Who crawled through the jailhouse window? | Mae |
| Where did Winnie take Mae's place? | jail |
| The Foster's cottage | touch-me-not |
| This was worn by the stranger. | yellow suit |
| What was Mae's philosophy? | one day at a time |
| The number of years since the jailhouse escape. | seventy |
| What was given in exchange for Winnie's rescue? | the wood |
| What was the meeting time for Jesse and Winnie? | midnight |
| What was the month at the top of the live-long year? | August |
| What lies at the center of the wood? | an ash tree and a pebble-covered spring |
| When Winnie is in the wood, what does she see first? | a young borwn-haired boy wearing green suspenders |
| How does Mae calm Winnie's sobbing? | by playing the music box |
| How do the Tucks realize they are different from normal people? | they are not harmed by potentially harmful events |
| How does Angus Tuck feel about his family bringing home Winnie? | he is elated |
| Why does Angus take Winnie out in the rowboat after dinner? | he uses the water to explain the cycle of life, to explain to her the danger of the spring water, and to express his frustration at being stuck in the life process |
| What does Jesse suggest to Winnie? | that she should drink from the spring when she is his age, marry him, and stay that age forever with him |
| What does Miles and Winnie have in common? | they both want to do something important in life and make a difference |
| How did the man in yellow suit learn about the Tucks? | his grandmother's friend |
| What did Mae do when the stanger tried to take Winnie? | hit him with the stock of Angus' shotgun |
| How does Winnie offer to help the Tucks? | by taking Mae's place in the jailhouse |
| How does Winnie protect the toad? | by pouring the bottled spring water over it |
| What do Mae and Angus learn when they return to Treegap? | Winnie died two years ago, the wood burned down from an electrical storm, and the spring had been bulldozed away |
| Who said? "Well boys, here it is. The worst is happening at last." | Mae |
| Who said? "Believe me, Winnie Foster, it would be terrible for you if you drank any of this water. Just terrible. I can't let you." | Jesse |
| Who said? "Did you hear that Winifred? That's it! That's the elf music I told you about. Why, it's been ages since I heard it last. And this is the first time you've ever heard it, isn't it? Wait till we tell your father." | Grandmother |
| Who said? "Can you picture what that means? Forever? The wheel would keep on going round, the water rolling by to the ocean, but the people would've turned into nothing but rocks by the side of the road. 'Cause they wouldn't know till after, and then it'd be too late. Do you see child?" | Angus |
| "Tuck and me, we got each other, and that's a lot. The boys, now, they go their separate ways. They're some different, don't always get on too good. But they come home whenever the spirit moves, and every ten years, first week of August, they meet at the spring and come home together." | Mae |
| "Pa thinks it's something left over from-well, from some other plan for the way the world should be, some plan that didn't work out too good. And so everything was changed. Except that the spring was passed over, somehow or other. Maybe he's right. I don't know." | Jesse |
| "Why should you have to be cooped up in a cage, too? It'd be better if I could be like you, out in the open and making up my own mind. Do you know they hardly ever let me out of this yard all by myself? I'll never be able to do anything important if I stay in here like this. I expect I better run away." | Winnie |
| "Life. Moving, growing, changing, never the same two minutes together. This wate, you look out at it every minute, and it looks the same, but it ain't. All night long it's been moving, coming in through the stream back there to the west, slipping out through the stream down east here, always quiet, always new, moving on. You can't hardly see the current, can you? And sometimes the wind makes it look like it's going the other way. But it's always there, the water;s always moving on, and someday, after a long while, it comes to the ocean." | Angus |
| "How'd it be if you was to wait till your're seventeen, same as me- heck that's only six years off- and then you could go and drink some, and then you could go away with me! We could get married, even." | Jesse |
| "Now, I don't have to spell things out for people like ourselves. Some types one comes across can't seem to cut their way through any problem, and that does make things difficult. But you, I don't have to explain the situation to you. I've got what you want, and you've got what I want. Of course, you might find that child without me, but...you might not find her in time. So: I want the wood and you want the child. It's a trade. A simple, clear-cut trade." | Stranger |
| "The way I see it, it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of oyur own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world." | Miles |
| "People got to be meat-eaters sometimes, though. It's the natural way. And that means killing things." | Miles |
| "Hear me out. As I've told you, I was fascinated by my grandmother's stories. People who never grew older! It was fantastic. It took possession of me. I decided to devote my life to finding out if it could be true, and if so, how and why." | Stranger |
| "Not Winnie! You ain't going to do a thing like that to Winnie. And you ain't going to give out the secret." | Mae |
| "Yep, she got him a good one, all right. He never even come to. So it's an open-and-shut case, since I seen her do it. Eyewitness. No question about it. They'll hang her for sure." | Constable |
| frantic | wildly out of control |
| gander | the act of looking |
| vanity | exaggerated self-love, inflated pride of one's appearance or performance |
| melancholy | depressed, gloomy, and low in spirit |
| luxurious | magnificant; rich |
| gallows | a wooden frame used for hanging criminals |
| unwittingly | without knowledge or awareness |
| accomplice | partner in wrong doing |
