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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the father and son find inside a barn?
(a) Three bodies hanging.
(b) A horse.
(c) One body hanging.
(d) Two cows and a goat.

2. What does the son think is close by the barn?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Apples.
(d) Corn.

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

4. What does the father fix to the cart to keep the limbs away as they move down the road?
(a) Pieces of cloth.
(b) Brooms.
(c) Large leaves.
(d) Brushes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father decide to do about the man who has collapsed on the road?

2. Near the edge of a city, the father and son come to a house -- what does the father find inside the house?

3. After leaving the woods, the father and son come to a road -- what does the father call this road?

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

5. As the father and son continue their journey, why is it getting so difficult to push the cart?

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