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"Tuck Everlasting" (an exploration of the concept of immortality) has been adapted into a movie (twice) and a Broadway musical. Her second novel for children, "Knee-Knock Rise", which she both wrote and illustrated, was awarded a Newbery Honor.
5 Natalie Babbitt quizzes and 55 Natalie Babbitt trivia questions.
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  Tuck Everlasting    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt. Enjoy.
Average, 10 Qns, Jacifan, May 07 10
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Jacifan
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  Who Wants to Live Forever?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz tests your knowledge of people and events from Natalie Babbitt's timeless classic "Tuck Everlasting".
Average, 10 Qns, Noblehunter, Sep 23 09
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  The Search for "The Search for Delicious"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on Natalie Babbitt's book "The Search for Delicious". Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, Brighteye, Nov 28 08
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  Can You Find Delicious?    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Do you know what is delicious? Find out with this quiz on "The Search for Delicious" by Natalie Babbitt.
Tough, 15 Qns, bookaddict, Aug 02 09
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  "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
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."
Average, 10 Qns, featheredbunny, Mar 17 05
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trivia question Quick Question
What object did Mae use to hit the man in the yellow suit?

From Quiz "Who Wants to Live Forever?"





Natalie Babbitt Trivia Questions
1. What is the Prime Minister's name?

From Quiz The Search for "The Search for Delicious"

Answer: DeCree

DeCree is the Prime Minister's name. It mentions this in the first sentence in the first chapter. DeeCree had adopted Gaylen as a child, and is writing a dictionary.

2. What animal does Winnie talk to at the beginning and end of the book, bringing the story full circle?

From Quiz Who Wants to Live Forever?

Answer: a toad

She blesses, or curses (however you look at it), the toad by giving it water from the magic spring. Now the toad will live forever.

3. What instrument opens the spring door?

From Quiz Can You Find Delicious?

Answer: A flute

A special flute made by the dwarves causes the spring door to open and close when played.

4. Why does Winnie not drink the spring water?

From Quiz "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt

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.

5. Who do Tuck and Mae meet with every ten years?

From Quiz Tuck Everlasting

Answer: their sons

Jesse and Miles meet them every ten years in the forest where they first drank the spring water.

6. The majority of the story takes place during what time of year?

From Quiz Who Wants to Live Forever?

Answer: the first week of August

"..the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after."

7. What material did the dwarves use to make the doll for Ardis?

From Quiz Can You Find Delicious?

Answer: Stone

The dwarves made the doll of stones linked together with ferns fastened to the head for hair. Ardis loved playing with her doll, but one day a man came and took the flute and played it, closing the springhouse door. When the man closed the door the doll was inside and Ardis was outside. Ardis couldn't get to her doll because the man took the flute and this made Ardis very sad. Eventually, Gaylen returned the flute to Ardis.

8. How many kids did Miles have?

From Quiz "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt

Answer: Two & 2

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

9. A man stopped Winnie and asked her how long she'd lived in that house. What did she say?

From Quiz Tuck Everlasting

Answer: "Forever."

The man was very interested in that answer.

10. What month does Gaylen always go away, to travel around the kingdom?

From Quiz The Search for "The Search for Delicious"

Answer: April

The Prime Minister mentions this to Canto, when he wonders where Gaylen is.

11. What is the name of the village in which "Tuck Everlasting" is set?

From Quiz Who Wants to Live Forever?

Answer: Treegap

All the incorrect answer are actual places in the U.S.

12. What is Gaylen's full name?

From Quiz Can You Find Delicious?

Answer: Vaungaylen

Gaylen's full name is Vaungaylen. Prime Minister DeCree named him Vaungaylen because it means little healer. Prime Minister DeCree was lonely before he took Gaylen in and because he was lonely he was often ill. When Gaylen came Prime Minister DeCree wasn't lonely and felt better.

13. Who drank the spring water?

From Quiz "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt

Answer: The Tucks and their horse

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

14. What is it that plays mysterious music in the forest?

From Quiz Tuck Everlasting

Answer: a music box

It's Mae's music box, although Winnie's grandmother says it's elves.

15. What letter was carved on the tree in the center of the wood?

From Quiz Who Wants to Live Forever?

Answer: "T" for Tuck

The "T" was carved there by Tuck on their first trip to the spring.

16. How long did Gaylen have to travel the kingdom and take the poll of the people?

From Quiz Can You Find Delicious?

Answer: 4 weeks

The King decreed that since there were four cities in the kingdom that four weeks would be a reasonable amount of time for Gaylen to travel the kingdom and poll the people.

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

From Quiz "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt

Answer: "Where's the child?"

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

18. In the first town, what is wrong with the guard's spear?

From Quiz The Search for "The Search for Delicious"

Answer: It has a pillow tied to it.

The mayor of the first town had told Gaylen that they had tied a pillow to the spear so nobody would get hurt.

19. The Tucks have not changed for how many years?

From Quiz Who Wants to Live Forever?

Answer: 87

They first drank the water in 1793 and the story takes place in 1880. These dates were not specifically given, but there are enough clues and dates given in the text that make these calculations correct.

20. What is the name of the mayor of the first town's daughter?

From Quiz Can You Find Delicious?

Answer: Medley

Medley is the daughter of the mayor of the first town. She believed in the woldwellers, listened to her father's stories, and ended up marrying Gaylen.

21. Between what years was Winnie alive?

From Quiz "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt

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.

22. Who took Winnie fishing and explained why she had to keep quiet about the spring?

From Quiz Tuck Everlasting

Answer: Miles

It all made sense to her after that.

23. What calmed Winnie's crying when she was being kidnapped by the Tucks?

From Quiz Who Wants to Live Forever?

Answer: the music box

The peculiar tune she heard from the music box was the same one she heard the night before. Her grandmother explained that she heard the music as a child. She called it elf music.

24. How old is the woldweller Gaylen meets?

From Quiz Can You Find Delicious?

Answer: 900 years old

A woldweller is a very old, wise creature who lives in trees. The woldweller that Gaylen meets is nine hundred years old.

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

From Quiz "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt

Answer: Winifred Foster Jackson

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

26. What did Jesse want Winnie to do at the end?

From Quiz Tuck Everlasting

Answer: drink the spring water

He wanted to have a lifetime of fun with her, so he bottled some spring water and gave it to her.

27. What did Gaylen put down as the woldweller's favorite food?

From Quiz The Search for "The Search for Delicious"

Answer: Rabbits

The woldweller never told Gaylen that rabbits were his favorite food, but Gaylen had easily guessed. Woldwellers resemble old men, and they are very wise.

28. Whose idea of delicious is a cold leg of chicken eaten in an orchard early in the morning in April when you have a friend to share it with and a brown dog to eat the scraps?

From Quiz Can You Find Delicious?

Answer: Canto

Canto tells Gaylen that his idea of delicious is a cold leg of chicken eaten in an orchard early in the morning in April when you have a friend to share it with and a brown dog to eat the scraps. This is the meal that he had just eaten with Gaylen.

29. What was the name of Miles' daughter?

From Quiz "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt

Answer: Anna

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

30. Who did Winnie think was "the dearest of all" the Tucks?

From Quiz Tuck Everlasting

Answer: Tuck

Even dearer to her than Jesse.

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