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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. After the son asks the father if he is dying, they stop to rest and set up camp -- how many days do they stay in this same spot?
(a) Three days.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Two days.
(d) Five days.

2. What do the father and son find inside the hidden cellar?
(a) Hundreds of tins of food and drink, heating, and a second room with a toilet.
(b) Piles of clothes and shoes.
(c) Piles of bodies.
(d) Baskets of apples and a bed.

3. After setting up camp, the father wakes up and the son is gone; after looking for him, what does the father see the son doing?
(a) Eating berries from a nearby bush.
(b) Bathing in a nearby creek.
(c) Rushing across the field.
(d) Sitting in an abandoned car.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 26, where do the father and son sleep?
(a) Beside a creek.
(b) In an abandoned house.
(c) In the woods.
(d) Under a bridge.

5. What does the old man that the father and son met on the road say to the father before he leaves their camp?
(a) He tells the father where to meet him in a few days.
(b) He tells the father thanks for his kindness.
(c) He tells the father he does not trust him.
(d) He tells the father that he knows he will die soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 36, the father and son come to a nice house -- why does the father worry about going inside?

2. How does the weather change once the father and son leave the house and barn and are back on the road?

3. What does the father want to do with the food that he and his son find in the nice house?

4. How does the father get the son to enter the nice house?

5. Before leaving the house and barn, the father and son collect more _______ before they head back on the road.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the son shows his increasing influence on the father in Chapter 31.

2. Explain what happens when the father and son find the old abandoned train -- analyze the father's actions.

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

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

7. Give an example from Chapters 26-30 of where the author uses foreshadowing.

8. Describe three things that the father and son find of use in Chapters 36-40.

9. Recall an example from Chapter 31 that demonstrates how the father is dealing with the son growing up.

10. In Chapter 26, describe the son's reaction when the father loses their lighter and cannot make a fire.

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