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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 41-End.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the father get the men that approach them on the road to leave?
(a) He begs with them to spare his son's life.
(b) He beats the men up.
(c) He pulls out his gun.
(d) He asks them nicely to please leave.

2. The son meets a man along the road -- what does the man tell him?
(a) He says he has two children and a wife, and he tells the son to come with him.
(b) He tells the son to give him everything in his cart.
(c) He tells the son to give up and shoot himself.
(d) He tells the son to turn around and go the other direction.

3. Despite his son's protests, what does the father do to the son after the person approaches him in the inhabited village?
(a) The father asks the other person to join them on their journey.
(b) The father shoots the other person.
(c) The father starts yelling at the other person.
(d) The father drags his son out of the village.

4. Once the father fills his basket and begins to leave the house, what does he look back and realize is by the house?
(a) A tank of gasoline.
(b) A cistern of fresh water.
(c) A pile of dead bodies.
(d) An abandoned car.

5. What does the father claim could happen to himself and his son if they get wet?
(a) They could die.
(b) They could finally cool off.
(c) They could slip and fall.
(d) They could get sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. While walking through an inhabited town, what are the father and son desperate for?

2. How does the son feel about how his father has treated the man who has collapsed on the road?

3. How far away are the father and son from where the father thought they actually were?

4. The son asks the father if they are going to die -- what is the father's reply?

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

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