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Tuck Everlasting Questions and Vocabulary Ch 5-8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| galling | annoying, irritating |
| consolingly | comfortingly, soothingly |
| self-assurance | confidence |
| irrelevantly | in a "beside the point" manner |
| plaintively | sorrowfully |
| perversely | in bewilderment, confusedly |
| distractedly | uncontrollable |
| parson | minister; preacher |
| elated | thrilled, overjoyed |
| receded | lessened, subsided |
| 1. Why did Winnie awaken disheartened the next morning? | She was disheartened because she was too afraid to run away. She realized she was afraid to go alone. She didn’t like being scared. |
| 2. Where does Winnie decide to go? | The wood |
| 3. What does Winnie see there? | A wonderful boy, with curly brown hair and tattered clothes. He didn’t have shoes on. She saw him drink from the spring. |
| 4. What does Winnie want to do that the boy refuses to allow her to do? | Winnie wants to drink from the spring |
| 1. How was Winnie’s kidnapping different from her imagined one? | Her imaginary kidnapping would be a troupe of burly men with long black moustaches who would tumble into a blanket and take her away no matter how much she pleaded. real kidnappers were as upset as she was and they were pleading with her not to be scared. |
| 2. What calmed Winnie’s sobbing? | Mae’s music box |
| 1. When did the Tucks realize there was something peculiar about themselves and their horse? | Jesse fell out of a tree and landed on his head but he was ok. The horse got shot but it didn’t kill him. Angus got bit by a snake. Jesse ate poison mushrooms and Mae cut herself. They realized after 10 then 20 years they weren’t getting older. |
| 2. Why did Miles’ wife leave him and take the children? | She decided he sold his soul to the devil. |
| 3. What conclusion did the Tucks draw concerning their changelessness? | They figured out it was the spring because the cat didn’t drink from it and died of old age |
| 4. How do Jesse and Miles’ opinions differ about their predicament? | Jesse was excited but Miles thought it to be a burden |
| 1. Who secretly overheard the entire Tuck story? | The stranger |
| 2. Make a prediction: What do you think the person in #11 will do with the information he overheard? | THIS IS YOUR OWN PREDICTION- MAKE IT SPECIFIC |