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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 36-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the father find inside the barn that he eats?
(a) Peaches.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Corn seeds.

2. As it becomes increasingly cold, what does the father begin to wonder?
(a) If he should shoot his son to end his misery.
(b) How long he can last.
(c) If he should shoot himself.
(d) How long his son can last.

3. After the father and son flee the woods and find their cart, why is the boy struggling to walk?
(a) The snow reaches his knees.
(b) His leg is broken.
(c) He has been shot.
(d) He is badly burned.

4. What does the boy find when they take things from the cart?
(a) Toys.
(b) A basketball.
(c) His mother's necklace.
(d) An old pair of shoes.

5. 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) Rushing across the field.
(b) Sitting in an abandoned car.
(c) Eating berries from a nearby bush.
(d) Bathing in a nearby creek.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 11, how would the father and son describe the dinner that they prepared?

5. The father wakes from a dream and claims dreaming is not good -- what was he dreaming about?

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