5A-Tuck-StudyGuideQuestions

=**Study Guide Questions**= //Here are some things to think about as you are reading each section. Although you may not be required to write the answers right now, you should be able to answer each one as they may appear on a quiz!//

//**Prologue- Chapter 4**//
1. Which month is at the top of the live-long year? 2. Describe the touch-me-not cottage. 3. Why did the wood 'make you want to speak in whispers'? 4. What lies at the center of the wood? 5. Where does Mae Tuck tell her husband she is going that morning at dawn? 6. What item does Mae take along with her? 7. For how many years had all the Tucks remained exactly the same? 8. What does Winnie Foster tell a toad at noon the same day? 9. Why does she want to do this? 10. Describe the stranger who appears at the Foster's gate at sunset of the same day. 11. Why has he come? 12. Why did Winnie's grandmother become so excited when she heard music coming from the wood?

**//Chapters 5-8//**
1. Why did Winnie awaken disheartened the next morning? 2. Where does Winnie decide to go? 3. What does Winnie see there? 4. What does Winnie want to do that the boy refuses to allow her to do? 5. How was Winnie's kidnapping different from her imagined one? 6. What calmed Winnie's sobbing? 7. When did the Tucks realize there was something peculiar about themselves and their horse? 8. Why did Miles' wife leave him and take the children? 9. What conclusion did the Tucks draw concerning their changelessness? 10. How do Jesse and Miles' opinions differ about their predicament? 11. Who secretly overheard the entire Tuck story?

//**Chapters 9-13**//
1. Describe the Tuck homeplace. 2. How does Angus Tuck react to his family bringing Winnie home with them? 3. How is the Tuck home different from what Winnie is used to? 4. How do Angus and Mae make a living? 5. Where do the boys go when they leave home and what do they do? 6. When is Mae certain her boys will show up at home? 7. How does Winnie feel during dinner at the Tucks? 8. Why does Angus take Winnie out in the rowboat on the pond? 9. What news does Miles bring at the end of chapter 12?

//**Chapters 14-18**//
1. What suggestion does Jesse make to Winnie? 2. How is Winnie feeling before she falls asleep that night? 3. What is the man in the yellow suit asking as a trade from the Fosters for the return of their daughter? 4. How do the constable and the stranger get along on the ride to the Tucks? 5. Where does Miles take Winnie the next morning? 6. What does Miles share with Winnie about his future goals? 7. Retell the quote that Miles tells Winnie after throwing the fish back into the pond. Why did he say that? 8. How have Winnie's feelings changed about the Tucks? 9. Who comes knocking at the door at the end of chapter 18?

**//Chapters 19-22//**
1. How did the stranger come to know of the "ageless" family? 2. Explain the stranger's plan for the wood. 3. What does Mae do that surprises everyone? 4. How does Winnie protect the Tucks when the constable accuses them of kidnapping? 5. Why does Winnie think Mae Tuck can't be hanged? 6. How do the Fosters react upon Winnie's return? 7. What news does the constable bring the Fosters? 8. Before falling asleep that night what does Winnie vow she must do? 9. For what reason does Winnie ask her grandmother for some water the next day? 10. Who appears at the Foster's gate and what is his plan? 11. How does Winnie offer to help the Tucks?

//**Chapters 23-Epilogue**//
1. How is Winnie feeling in the three hours before she is to meet Jesse? 2. How is Miles able to help his mother? 3. Just as Mae gets out of the window, what happens? 4. What does Winnie do after Mae gets out? 5. What caused the loud crash during the night at the jailhouse? 6. How did the constable react when he found out about the switch? 7. How did Winnie's status change with her peers because of the incident? 8. Explain what Winnie does to the toad and why. 9. When the Tucks returned, how had Treegap changed? 10. What do the Tucks learn happened to the wood, tree, and spring? 11. Why does Mae state they have no need to come back to Treegap? 12. How many years had passed since that first week in August with Winnie when the Tucks returned? 13. What do Mae and Angus see in the road before leaving Treegap?