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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 26-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the father wonder after seeing his son's reaction to finding the hidden cellar?
(a) How much more the son can take.
(b) Why the son runs away.
(c) Why the son is so excited.
(d) How his son can cry so easily.

2. Besides asking his father to start a fire while under the bridge, what else does the son ask the father?
(a) What they are going to eat for dinner.
(b) If they could not possibly have helped the people in the pantry.
(c) Where they will head next.
(d) Why he did not shoot the people in the pantry.

3. What do the father and son have to get through or it could mean their death?
(a) The plains.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The desert.

4. The day after the father and son make cakes, what happens when the son calls out to the person who approaches him?
(a) The person stops and stares and the son.
(b) The person starts yelling at the son.
(c) The person runs away.
(d) The person runs up to the son.

5. How are the father and son feeling when they leave the hidden cellar?
(a) They have full stomachs and are in high spirits.
(b) Sick to their stomachs and in low spirits.
(c) Upset with each other because the son wants to stay.
(d) Tired and anxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father do to the son after they come upon the thing in the doorway?

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

3. What does the father say when he and his son enter the hidden cellar?

4. When the father and son stop for the night after leaving the hidden cellar, what does the son ask the father?

5. What does the father do when one of the men they are spying on walks toward their hiding place?

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