Prologue

1. What three things happened in the first week of August that seemed to have no connection at first? (pg. 3/pg. 4)

Chapter 1

2. In what way was the wood strange? (pg. 4/pg. 6)

3. Why didn’t the people go through the wood? (pg. 4/pg. 7)

4. What would the people have noticed if they had gone into the wood? (pg. 5/pg. 8)

Chapter 2

5. What dream is Tuck having when Mae wakes him? (pg. 6/pg. 10)

6. What is Mae’s response to Tuck’s description of the dream? (pg. 6/pg. 10)

7. When and why does Mae set out for the wood? (pgs. 5 & 6/pgs. 9 & 10)

8. How long has it been since Mae went to Treegap? (pg. 6/pg. 10) [cont.]

Chapter 2 (Cont.)

9. How does Tuck feel about Mae going to the wood to meet her sons? (pg. 6/pg. 10)

10. What does Mae take with her (one pretty thing she owns)? (pg. 6/p. 11)

11. What is the strangest thing about the Tuck family? (pg. 7/pg. 12)

Chapter 3

12. To whom does Winnie complain? (pg. 7/pg. 14)

13. What does she complain about?

(pg. 8/pgs. 14-15)

14. What does she plan to do in the morning? (pg. 8/pg. 15)

Chapter 4

15. Who appears at the Fosters’ gate at sunset? (pg. 8/ pg. 17)

16. What is he looking for? (p.9/p.19)

17. What do they hear coming from the wood? What does Winnie’s grandmother say it is? What does Winnie say it sounds like? (pg. 10/ pgs. 20-21)

Chapter 5

18. Why does Winnie decide not to run away? (pg. 11/pg. 22)

19. Whom does Winnie meet in the wood? (pg. 14/ pg. 27)

20. How old does he say he is at first? How old does he say he is after Winnie persists? (pg. 14/pg. 28)

21. How old is Winnie? (pg. 14/pg. 28)22. What gets Jesse upset? (p.15/p.29)

Chapter 6

23. How was Winnie’s visions of being kidnapped different from the actual situation? (p. 16/p. 31)

24. Whom does Winnie see stand-ing on the road? (pg. 16/pg. 33)

25. What calms Winnie down? (pg. 17/pg. 35)

Chapter 726. How long ago had the Tucks drunk

the water from the spring? (pg. 18/pg. 37)

27. According to their story, everyone had a drink, except for the ______. (pg. 19/pg. 38)

28. When did they first realize “there was something peculiar”? (pg. 19/pg. 38)

29. Why did Miles’s wife leave him? (pg. 19/pg. 39) [cont.]

Chapter 7 (Cont.)

30. What made the Tucks realize that the spring was “the source of their changelessness”? (pg. 20/pg. 40)

31. When they came to that conclusion, what did Angus Tuck do to make sure? (pg. 20/pg. 40)

32. What is Angus Tuck’s explanation for the spring? (pg. 20/pg. 41)

Chapter 8

33. How is Jesse’s attitude toward immortality different from that of Miles? (pg. 21 /pg. 43)

34. Why does Mae want to take Winnie home with her? (pg. 21/pg. 43)

35. Who has been following the Tucks and heard their entire story? (pg. 22/pg. 45)

Chapter 9

36. What kind of a child does Tuck say Winnie is? (pg. 24/pg. 48) What does he mean?

37. How does Tuck react upon meeting Winnie? (pg. 24/pg. 48)

38. How does Winnie feel upon meeting Tuck? (pg. 24/pg. 49)

Chapter 10

39. How is Winnie’s home different from the Tucks’? (pgs. 24-25/ pgs. 50-51)

40. Why can’t the Tucks settle down at one place? (p. 26/p. 53)

41. How long have they lived in that house? (pg. 26/pg. 53)

[cont.]

Chapter 10 (Cont.)

42. How often do Miles and Jesse come home? (pg. 27/pg. 54)

43. What is Mae’s attitude toward immortality? How does she deal with it? (pg. 27/pgs. 54-55)

Chapter 1144. What is Winnie not allowed to do at

home at mealtime that suddenly makes the meal at the Tucks seem “luxurious”? (pg. 28/pg. 56)

45. What ‘rule’ does Winnie notice at mealtime? (p. 28/p. 56)

46. How and why does Winnie’s attitude towards the Tucks change? (pg. 28/pg. 57)

Chapter 1247. Tuck tells Winnie, “Everything’s a

_______, turning and turning, never stopping….” (p. 30/p. 62) What does he mean?

48. Tuck says to Winnie, “We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.” What figurative language is used here?

49. Why does Tuck want Winnie to keep their secret? (pgs. 31-32/p. 64)

Chapter 13

50. Who steals the Tucks’ horse? Where does he take the horse? (pg. 32/pg. 66)

51. What does he say to Winnie’s grandmother? (pg. 32/pg. 66)

Chapter 14

52. Who is the last person to visit Winnie as she tries to fall asleep? What does he want? (pg. 35/pgs. 71-72)

Chapter 15

53. What kind of a deal/trade does the man in the yellow suit want to make with the Fosters? (pg. 36/pg. 75)

54. How does he describe the Tucks to the Fosters? (pg. 36/pg. 74)

55. Why doesn’t he want Mr. Foster to come along?

Chapter 16

56. Describe the constable’s suspicions. (pg. 37/pg. 77)

57. What is the stranger’s explanation for not reporting the kidnapping right away? (pg. 37/ pg. 77)

[cont.]

Chapter 16 (Cont.)

58. What is the constable’s reaction upon being told that the Fosters have sold their wood to the man in the yellow suit? Why? (pg. 37/p. 77)

59. How far is the Tucks’ home from the Fosters’? (pg. 37/p. 77)

Chapter 17

60. Why didn’t Miles take his family to the spring to drink the water? (pgs. 40-41/pg. 84)

61. What decision does Winnie come to about the Tucks’ secret? Why? (pg. 41/pg. 86)

62. What does Miles want to do with his life? (pg. 42/pgs. 86-87)

Chapter 18

63. Why do you think Winnie feels that Tuck is “the dearest of them all”? (pg. 44/pg. 91)

64. What is the Tucks’ reaction when they hear a knock at their door? Why? (pg. 44/pg. 91)

65. Who shows up at their door? (pg. 44/pg. 92)

Chapter 19

66. Who told the man in the yellow suit stories about the strange family that never grew old? (pg. 45/pg. 94)

67. How did she (#65) come to hear these stories? (pg. 45/ pgs. 94-95)

[cont.]

Chapter 19 (Cont.)

68. What clue led the man to search for the family that never grew old? (pgs. 45-46/pg. 96)

69. What does the man in the yellow suit plan to do with the water? (pg. 46/pg. 97)

[cont.]

Chapter 19 (Cont.)

70. How does he want the Tucks to help him? (pg. 47/ pg. 98)

71. What does Mae do to the man in the yellow suit? Why? (pg. 48/pg. 100)

Chapter 20

72. What is Winnie’s response to the constable when he accuses Mae of kidnapping her? (pg. 48/ pg. 102)

73. What does the constable say would happen to Mae if the man dies? (pg. 49/pg. 103)

74. What realization does Winnie come to regarding Mae’s fate? (pg. 50/pg. 105)

Chapter 21

75. Why does Winnie feel ‘different’ than she did before leaving home? (pg. 51/pg. 108)

76. What news does the constable deliver to the Fosters? (pg. 52/pg. 109)

Chapter 22

77. What does Winnie see across the road from her cottage? (pg. 53/pg. 112)

78. Who comes by to say goodbye to Winnie? (pg. 54/pg. 113)

79. What is Miles’s plan? (pg. 54/ pg. 113-114)

[cont.]

Chapter 22 (Cont.)

80. What is it about their plan that worries them? (pg. 54/pg. 114)

81. What does Jesse give Winnie? What does he want Winnie to do with it? (pg. 54/pg. 114)

82. What idea does Winnie have to help Mae? (pg. 54/pg. 114)

Chapter 23

83. Why does Winnie feel so much guilt about what she’s about to do? (pg. 56/pg. 118)

84. What is it about her family that worries Winnie? (pg. 56/pg. 119)

Chapter 24

85. How does the weather affect the jailbreak? (pg. 59/pgs. 124-125)

Chapter 25

86. How did Winnie’s parents react when they first found out about Winnie’s part in the escape? (pg. 61/pg. 130)

87. What explanation did Winnie give to her parents? (pg. 61/ pg. 130) [cont.]

Chapter 25 (Cont.)

88. How did her family’s reaction change upon hearing her explanation? (pg. 62/pg. 130)

89. What were the ‘benefits’ for Winnie for doing what she did? (pg. 62/pg. 130)

90. What did Winnie do to the toad? Why? (p. 63/pgs.132-133)

Epilogue

91. How can you tell that the events in the epilogue take place many years after those in the rest of the story? Cite specific evidence. (pgs. 63-64/ pgs. 134-135)

[cont.]

Epilogue (Cont.)

92. What happened to the Fosters’ wood? (pg. 64/pg. 136)

93. What decision did Winnie make about the water? How do you know? (pg. 65/pg. 138)

94. What did Mae and Tuck see in the middle of the road? What did Tuck do with it? (pg. 66/pg. 139)

Resources

http://www.eastprovidencelibrary.com/natalie_babbitt.htm (6/24/04)

http://green.upper-arlington.k12.oh.us/ohioauthors/babbitt,natalie.htm (6/24/04)

http://english.byu.edu/Novelinks/reading%20strategies/tuck%20everlasting/Tuck%20Everlasting.htm

(6/25/04)

Literature Study Guide Tuck Everlasting, Prentice Hall, 2001