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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 26-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After finding the items from the cart, what does the boy have a bad dream about?
(a) Freezing to death.
(b) His father dying.
(c) A toy penguin.
(d) His mother's suicide.

2. The father and the son are becoming increasingly weak, and they sleep in the woods -- what does the father do while the son is asleep?
(a) The father keeps the fire going.
(b) Begins to cry quietly.
(c) Searches for food.
(d) Feels for the son's heartbeat.

3. After leaving the trailer, further along the road, what does the father discover?
(a) A dead animal.
(b) Fresh footprints.
(c) A dead body.
(d) A pair of shoes.

4. What does the father notice that makes him question whether he is a good father?
(a) How tired his son is getting.
(b) How thin his son is getting.
(c) How sad his son is getting.
(d) How sick his son is getting.

5. What time is it when the father and son make their way down to the city?
(a) 7:00 a.m.
(b) 10:00 a.m.
(c) 12:00 p.m.
(d) 9:00 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father use to make wrappings for himself and his son's feet?

2. What does the father make with some bottles and gasoline?

3. Where do the father and son hide while spying on the people climbing out of a truck?

4. After the father and son flee the woods and find their cart, why is the boy struggling to walk?

5. After passing the stone wall, what do the father and son hear that makes them hide?

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