1. 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) He is badly burned.
(c) He has been shot.
(d) His leg is broken.

2. 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) Eating berries from a nearby bush.
(c) Sitting in an abandoned car.
(d) Bathing in a nearby creek.

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

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

5. What does the son talk about as they leave the hidden cellar?
(a) How tired and hungry he is.
(b) Card games.
(c) How he wishes he was back in the cellar.
(d) Spaceships and traveling to Mars.

Short Answer Questions

1. After spying on the people walking by, further down the road the father and son see a fire and smell food -- what do the they find cooking on the fire?

2. What do the father and son find in the woods that they eat for dinner?

3. Where do the father and son travel to after leaving the gas station?

4. What does the father claim about his memory from his childhood?

5. What do the father and son have to get through or it could mean their death?

(see the answer key)

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