Reading : Tuck Everlasting Comprehension Questions - Prologue - Chapter Two

Question 1

Ch 1 --Who made the road to Treegap?

Accepted Answer

cows

Question 2

Ch 2 -- What is Mae Tuck excited about?

Accepted Answer

seeing her sons -- Miles and Jesse

Question 3

Who is Tuck?

Accepted Answer

Mae's husband

Question 4

What was at the center of the things that happened on the day in August?

Accepted Answer

the woods

Question 5

At what time of the year does the story begin?

Accepted Answer

the first week of August

Question 6

The mood at the beginning of the book is:

Accepted Answer

expectant

Question 7

Why didn’t people go through the woods?

Accepted Answer

there is no road through the woods, The Fosters owned the woods, it was private property, the road went around the woods

Question 8

“The house is so proud of itself.” This is what type of figurative language?

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 9

"The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel." The author uses the wheel as:

Accepted Answer

symbolism

Question 10

What does the author compare to August?

Accepted Answer

the highest seat of a Ferris Wheel

Question 11

What disaster would have happened if people had gone to the woods?

Accepted Answer

people would have found the spring by the Ash tree

Question 12

What does Tuck dream about?

Accepted Answer

heaven and never having heard of Treegap

Question 13

What is not listed as one of the three things that are important?

Accepted Answer

toad

Question 14

What do we find out when Mae does not look in the mirror?

Accepted Answer

she hasn't changed in 87 years

Question 15

How long has it been since Mae went to Treegap?

Accepted Answer

ten years

Question 16

What was not one of the three things that happened on that day in August?

Accepted Answer

A fat toad sits in the woods

Question 17

Who is Winnie Foster?

Accepted Answer

Winnie is the only child of the Fosters.

Question 18

Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman….” This is:

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 19

What was the one pretty thing Mae owned?

Accepted Answer

music box

Question 20

What is Winnie's connection to the woods?

Accepted Answer

The Fosters (her family) owned the woods

Questions 20