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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After leaving the first location visited in Chapter 1, the father and son reach a city -- why does the father presume there is no life there?
(a) He does not see any smoke coming from the city.
(b) He does not see any lights.
(c) He does not see any people.
(d) He does not see any cars.

2. What is the father doing at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Preparing dinner for his child.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Walking down a deserted road.
(d) Looking over his child as he sleeps.

3. What lands on the son's hand at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A teardrop.
(b) A raindrop.
(c) A snowflake.
(d) A leaf.

4. After reaching the city, what does the son ask the father about before nightfall?
(a) His mother.
(b) Death.
(c) Food.
(d) His grandmother.

5. In Chapter 11, what do the father and son do before returning to the woods?
(a) They wash themselves.
(b) They rest.
(c) They talk about their journey so far.
(d) They sit and watch the birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father tell the son has happened to the man who collapses in the road?

2. Along the road, what do the father and son encounter that makes them stop?

3. How does the son feel about how his father has treated the man who has collapsed on the road?

4. Just when the father is thinking of leaving the cart he sees their destination -- what does he name it?

5. After leaving the trailer, further along the road, what does the father discover?

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