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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the father swim out to inspect while the son stays on the beach?
(a) A floating body.
(b) An abandoned life raft.
(c) An abandoned boat.
(d) A person drowning.

2. What do the father and son do in the hidden cellar besides eating?
(a) They organize the supplies.
(b) They play cards.
(c) They take a bath.
(d) They wrestle.

3. Besides asking his father to start a fire while under the bridge, what else does the son ask the father?
(a) Why he did not shoot the people in the pantry.
(b) What they are going to eat for dinner.
(c) If they could not possibly have helped the people in the pantry.
(d) Where they will head next.

4. After the father and son finish the last of their food supply, what does the son ask the father about eating?
(a) If they will ever have to eat a cat.
(b) If they will ever have to eat a human.
(c) If they will ever have to eat a dog.
(d) If they will ever have to eat a horse.

5. How does the weather change once the father and son leave the house and barn and are back on the road?
(a) The wind picks up.
(b) It begins snowing.
(c) It begins hailing.
(d) It begins raining.

Short Answer Questions

1. After passing the boys with the fire, the father and son think someone is following them so they decide to hide -- who do they see walk past?

2. What does the father wonder after seeing his son's reaction to finding the hidden cellar?

3. After leaving the nice house, the father and son come to a gas station -- what do they find there?

4. What does the son talk about as they leave the hidden cellar?

5. What does the father say about their first night back on the road?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the father makes lamps before he and the son enter the hidden cellar.

2. Describe what the father and son find in Chapter 21 after the father breaks open a locked pantry door.

3. Describe what things the father and son find while at the beach in Chapter 40.

4. In Chapter 30, describe how the son acts like a child for the first time.

5. Recall how the father displays his paranoid attitude again while he and the son are staying in the hidden cellar.

6. Describe three things that the father finds in Chapters 21-25 that he finds useful.

7. Describe what the father and son find in Chapter 35 that symbolizes the end of the son's innocence.

8. Explain why the father gives the son a gun after they see the people walking towards the house.

9. Explain why the son returns to the fearful version of himself in Chapter 36, and use an example from the text.

10. Describe how the author generates credibility to the father's paranoia about the world.

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