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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the father and son running out of as they travel?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Water.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Food.

2. After leaving the first location visited in Chapter 1, the father and son reach a city -- why does the father presume there is no life there?
(a) He does not see any people.
(b) He does not see any smoke coming from the city.
(c) He does not see any lights.
(d) He does not see any cars.

3. What do the father and son find in the woods that they eat for dinner?
(a) Berries.
(b) Acorns and roots.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) A rabbit.

4. After passing the stone wall, what do the father and son hear that makes them hide?
(a) Army trucks.
(b) Guns.
(c) Wild dogs.
(d) People.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of Chapter 9, what does the father claim about the men of the world?

3. How does the father recognize their destination?

4. The father and son come to a stone wall -- what is hanging from the wall?

5. What is the first location that the father and son walk to in Chapter 1?

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