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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the father claim could happen to himself and his son if they get wet?
(a) They could finally cool off.
(b) They could die.
(c) They could get sick.
(d) They could slip and fall.

2. The day after the father and son make cakes, who approaches the son?
(a) An old man.
(b) A girl.
(c) A boy.
(d) An old woman.

3. What do the father and son find inside a trailer along the road?
(a) Piles of clothes.
(b) Boxes of food.
(c) Gallons of water.
(d) Dead bodies.

4. Where are the father and son sleeping at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) In a hotel.
(b) In a house.
(c) Outside.
(d) In a trailer.

5. What type of games do the father and son play?
(a) Cards.
(b) Hide and seek.
(c) Board games.
(d) Charades.

6. Despite his son's protests, what does the father do to the son after the person approaches him in the inhabited village?
(a) The father drags his son out of the village.
(b) The father asks the other person to join them on their journey.
(c) The father starts yelling at the other person.
(d) The father shoots the other person.

7. What do the father and son discover in a doorway?
(a) A starving dog.
(b) A small child crying.
(c) A dead, dried-up body.
(d) A gun.

8. What does the father find at the supermarket that he gives to the son?
(a) A can of Coke.
(b) A can of Dr. Pepper.
(c) A can of Pepsi.
(d) A can of Mountain Dew.

9. The son asks the father if they are going to die -- what is the father's reply?
(a) He tells him no.
(b) He tells him yes.
(c) He tells him he does not know if they will live or die.
(d) He tells him not to ask silly questions.

10. After leaving the city, what direction do the father and son head?
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) North.

11. At the end of Chapter 8, what does the father cough up?
(a) Food.
(b) Blood.
(c) Mucous.
(d) Phlegm.

12. How does the son feel about how his father has treated the man who has collapsed on the road?
(a) He is dismayed.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He is relieved.

13. How does the father recognize their destination?
(a) He knows it from his father's description.
(b) He knows it from when he was a boy.
(c) He knows it from his wife's description.
(d) He has a feeling that it is the right place.

14. The father has a hard time remembering how to play the games -- what does he do?
(a) He makes the son look for firewood.
(b) He gets embarrassed.
(c) He gets angry.
(d) He makes up new ones.

15. What does the son find in his pocket that the father and son share?
(a) Nuts.
(b) Candy.
(c) Raisins.
(d) Berries.

Short Answer Questions

1. While traveling, why do the father and son leave their fires alight?

2. In the morning after finding the city, why does the father step away from the son before he wakes?

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

4. The day after the father and son make cakes, what happens when the son calls out to the person who approaches him?

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

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