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ELA/ Tuck Everlasting-Chapters 14-20/ Take Home Quiz
Students, you will also be given class time throughout the week to work on this. Please use this time efficiently. The assignment
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is due at the end of your ELA class Friday, the 14 .
1. Finding Evidence in the text - You will answer the following questions using your book. Please read the example question I
have given you, so you will understand the format in which I would like you to answer. You must read the question. Answer the
question from reviewing the text and find the quote that supports your answer.
QUESTION
EX. At the end of chapter
fourteen, Jess Tuck reveals his
outlook on life. Describe how
Jesse views his life situation.
1. In chapter fifteen, the stranger
reveals something about his
relationship with Winnie that is
clearly a lie. This makes him
seem even more suspicious.
What is it he says to Winnie’s
father about the stranger and
Winnie?
2. Eventually, in chapter fifteen,
the stranger decides to blackmail
the Fosters. Explain the
blackmail situation.
3. On page 77, the constable
says, ‘”Maybe you’re in cahoots
with the kidnappers, how do I
know?’” Using context clues
what do you think, “cahoots”
means? After answering find the
word or words that helped you
identify the meaning of the word
and place this in the quote
section. The word(s) should
come directly from the text.
STUDENT RESPONSE
Jesse Tuck likes to have fun. He
believes life is about having a
good time and enjoying yourself.
He feels he should enjoy the
ability to live forever.
QUOTE TO SUPPORT ANSWER
(Surround your quote with
quotation marks), and add the
page number
“’Why, heck, Winnie, life’s to
enjoy yourself, isn’t it? What else
is it good for?’”(p.72)
The man in the yellow suit acts
strange talking about Winnie when
he says that they were friends.
The man in the yellow suit and
Winnie are clearly not friends and
he is just acting more suspicious.
"We'd be good friends, I think.
Why the little girl and I, we're
friends already. It would be a great
relief to see her safely home again,
wouldn't it?" (Page 74
The man in the yellow suit
blackmails the Fosters by saying
that he will bring Winnie back if
they give him the wood.
"So I want the wood and you want
the child. It's a trade. A simple,
clear-cut trade." (Page 75
Based on context clues, I suspect
that cahoots is being deeply
involved with the situation. I
identified that it was used as a
verb. I replaced cahoots with
involved and the sentence made
sense.
"How come your so deep in
it?" (Page 76
QUESTION
STUDENT RESPONSE
4. In chapter 17, Winnie decides
she will not tell the secret.
Describe in your own words
HOW she comes to this
realization. Find the quote(s)
that supports her decision not to
tell the secret.
Winnie realizes that she doesn't
want to tell the secret when Miles
explains to her how everything
needs to die. She feels badly for
the Tucks. If the secret were told
more people and objects would be
tempted to stay young forever.
5”We don’t deserve-no
blessings-it it (living forever) is a
blessing. And, likewise, I don’t
see how we deserve to be
cursed, if it is a curse.
”In chapter ten, Mae uses those
words to explain the blessing ( or
not) of living forever. In chapter
twenty, the man in the yellow
suit states his ideas about who
should “deserve” to live forever.
Who will be deserving of the
water that allows people to live
forever? Answer in your own
words and find the quote that
supports the stranger’s ideas on
this topic.
I don't think that anyone should
have ownership of the spring
especially the man in the yellow
suit. If everyone in the world lived
forever, the world would be
crowded. The man in the yellow
suit only wants to sell the spring
water to people which deserve it
most and can pay him the
expensive cost.
QUOTE TO SUPPORT ANSWER
(Surround your quote with
quotation marks), and add the
page number
"If all the mosquitoes lived forever
and if they kept on having babies!it would be terrible. The Tucks
were right. It was best if no one
knew about the spring, including
the mosquitoes. (Page 86
"If you think on it, you come to see
there'd be so many creatures,
including people, we'd all be
squeezed in right up next to each
other before long." (Page 85
"Only to certain people, people
who deserve it. And it will be very,
very expensive." (Page 97
2. Indirect and Direct characterization- Review the book thus far. We have learned a great deal about
the characters through both direct and indirect characterization. Find one quote that represents a direct
characterization of a character. Find another quote that gives and indirect characterization for the same
character.
Page Number
83
Page number
71
Direct Characterization QUOTE
"It was like Jesse's and yet not like. It was
thinner, without Jesse's rounded cheeks, and
paler, and his hair was almost straight,
clipped neatly below the ears."
Indirect Characterization QUOTE
"But the thing is, you knowing about the water
already, and living right next to it so's you could go
there any time, well, listen, how'd it be if you was to
wait till you're seventeen, same age as me-heck,
that's only six years off-and then you could go drink
and some, and then you could go away with me! We
could get married even."
What does this quote reveal
about the character? Be sure to
include the name of the
character in your explanation.
Jesse has rounded cheeks and
has a somewhat similar face to
Miles, but it's different in a way.
What does this quote reveal
about the character? Be sure to
include the name of the
character in your explanation.
This quote reveals that Jesse
may be lonely because he can't
have a normal marriage. I think
he wants to have Winnie drink
from the spring so he can start
a family of his own with her.
3. Predict- There are only a few chapters left in the story. What do you think will happen to the Tucks?
Respond in two or three well thought sentences.
Based on the past events throughout the story, I think that the constable will try to
kill the Tucks and that the man in the yellow suit will try and kill Winnie. I think that
the constable will try to kill the Tucks because he will notice that they are not aging
in the gallows and he will show sympathy towards their situation. I think that the
man in the yellow suit will try to kill Winnie because he has been acting suspicious
when he is around her and he doesn't want anything to interfere with him earning a
profit.