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Quiz about Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

"Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt Quiz

I've decided to read this book for school and my teacher thinks that its a wonderful book and as E.B. White says "If a book is worth reading at 8, it's worth reading at 40."

A multiple-choice quiz by featheredbunny. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
featheredbunny

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
102,393

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
842

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Why does Winnie not drink the spring water? Hint

She hates Jesse and can't bear the thought of living with him forever.

Her mother and grandmother persuaded her not to.

She lost the bottle of water so she couldn't drink from it.

She is convinced by Mae and Tuck that living forever is bad, and she decides that she wants to be part of the circle of life and death.

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Question 2 of 10

2. How many kids did Miles have?

Answer: (One Word or Number)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who drank the spring water? Hint

The Tucks, the man in the yellow suit, and the Tucks' horse

The Tucks and Winnie

The Tucks and their cat

The Tucks and their horse

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Question 4 of 10

4. What was the first thing Winnie ever heard Tuck say? Hint

"What a darling child!"

"Why is she here?"

"You're the first child we've seen in a hundred years!"

"Where's the child?"

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Question 5 of 10

5. Between what years was Winnie alive? Hint

1870-1948

1869-1944

1879-1956

1871-1946

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Question 6 of 10

6. What was Winnie's name on her gravestone?

Answer: (Three Words)

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Question 7 of 10

7. What was the name of Miles' daughter?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 8 of 10

8. What were some characteristics of Winnie at the beginning of the story? Hint

Happy and content

Lonely and defiant

Restless and impatient

Furious and crazy

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Question 9 of 10

9. Jesse hated living forever.

True

False

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Question 10 of 10

10. How old is Jesse really at the beginning of the story? Hint

183

104

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Why does Winnie not drink the spring water?

Answer: She is convinced by Mae and Tuck that living forever is bad, and she decides that she wants to be part of the circle of life and death.

Personally I wouldn't have minded so much. Just kidding.

2. How many kids did Miles have?

Answer: Two

Miles was 40 by then but he looked 22. His wife decided that he had sold his soul to the Devil and left him.

3. Who drank the spring water?

Answer: The Tucks and their horse

Yes, the little toad is immortal too, but he didn't literally drink it. He just...absorbed it.

4. What was the first thing Winnie ever heard Tuck say?

Answer: "Where's the child?"

Then he said, "The boys say you brung along a real, honest-to-goodness, natural child!"

5. Between what years was Winnie alive?

Answer: 1870-1948

She was 78 when she died. She must've gone through a lot, with the the Civil war ending only five years before she was born dying at the end of World War Two.

6. What was Winnie's name on her gravestone?

Answer: Winifred Foster Jackson

She actually married! I thought she wouldn't have. I wonder what kind of person she grew up the be.

7. What was the name of Miles' daughter?

Answer: Anna

Miles' wife was a friend of the man with the yellow suit's grandma.

8. What were some characteristics of Winnie at the beginning of the story?

Answer: Lonely and defiant

9. Jesse hated living forever.

Answer: False

He loved it, contrary to the rest of the family. I think it would be fair to say that he never grew up.

10. How old is Jesse really at the beginning of the story?

Answer: 104

Interesting, he experienced 104 years of life and he still doesn't see what is so terrible about living forever?

Source: Author featheredbunny

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