Tuck Everlasting

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Why is it beneficial for the story to have an omniscient narrator?

A) The narrator provides insights into the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters.

B) The narrator focuses on the thoughts and perspectives of individual characters.

C) The narrator offers an objective viewpoint allowing readers to draw conclusions.

D) The narrator adds mystery to the story by withholding information from the reader.

2. What do the Tucks and their lifestyle represent to Winnie?

A) Clutter

B) Excitement

C) Freedom

D) Confinement

3. How does Winnie’s understanding of her family change?

A) She understands that not all families are like the Tuck family.

B) She learns that though her family is strict, they still love her.

C) She accepts her role in the family but determines to leave when she’s grown.

D) She begins to recognize that she no longer wants to live with her family.

4. What techniques are most used by the author to build suspense?

A) She withholds information and raises questions to create interest and mystery.

B) She quickly answers the reader’s questions to create engagement.

C) She uses the gut reactions of the characters to create tension.

D) She includes scenes of relative calm to provide time for world-building.

5. Which of the following is used as a red herring—something used to mislead the reader—in the novel?

A) The “T” carved in the tree.

B) The music box

C) The woods surrounding the spring.

D) The man’s yellow suit

6. What can the reader infer is important to Winnie?

A) Immortality

B) Adventure

C) Her family

D) Life

7. Which statement is an indication of Winnie’s character growth?

A) She chooses to trust the Tucks despite having little evidence.

B) She stays with the Tucks even though her family might worry.

C) She questions everything, and attempts to make the right decision.

D) She believes the man in the yellow suit is kind at first.

8. What is the driving motivation for the man in the yellow suit?

A) Greed

B) Justice

C) Immortality

D) Righteousness

9. What does the rainstorm the night of Mae’s departure from jail symbolize?

A) The looming death that Mae is able to evade.

B) The sadness in the parting of Winnie and the Tucks.

C) The death of the man in the yellow suit.

D) The destruction of the Tuck’s home in the village.

10. What does the music box symbolize to Mae?

A) The meeting place where the river is.

B) The grandchildren she has lost to old age.

C) Leaving her hometown of Treegap behind.

D) Her life before becoming immortal.

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. Explain why the Tuck family is more appealing to Winnie than her own family. Use evidence to support your response.

2. What events in the book support the novel’s theme that All Things Are Connected?