Q 01/05

Who wrote Tuck Everlasting?

A) Natalie Babbitt

B) Katherine Paterson

C) Lois Lowry

D) Madeleine L'Engle

Answer · why

A) Natalie Babbitt

She had already won a Newbery Honor for Knee-Knock Rise in 1971.

Q 02/05

In what year was the novel published?

A) 1983

B) 1975

C) 1991

D) 1999

Answer · why

B) 1975

Farrar, Straus and Giroux published it; it has since sold over 5 million copies.

Q 03/05

What is the central theme of the novel?

A) Time travel

B) Witchcraft

C) Immortality

D) Orphanhood

Answer · why

C) Immortality

The Tucks cannot age or die after drinking from a spring, and the book asks whether that is a blessing.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the village where Winnie Foster lives?

A) Riverbend

B) Hollow Creek

C) Pinewood

D) Treegap

Answer · why

D) Treegap

Her family is the oldest in town and owns the wood next to their house, though they never enter it.

Q 05/05

How old is Winnie when the novel begins?

A) 10

B) 6

C) 8

D) 9

Answer · why

A) 10

The 2002 film aged her up to fifteen and moved the story to 1914.