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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What house do the father and son go to after leaving the supermarket?
(a) The house where the son was born.
(b) The house where the father grew up.
(c) The house where the son's mother grew up.
(d) The house of the father's best friend.

4. After the confrontation with the man who found their hiding spot, where do the father and son stay for the night?
(a) Out of sight in the woods.
(b) In an old abandoned house.
(c) Up in a tree.
(d) In a broken down van.

5. What do the father and child use to carry their possessions?
(a) A van.
(b) A wagon.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A cart.

6. The father and son come to a stone wall -- what is hanging from the wall?
(a) Human feet.
(b) Human hands.
(c) Human heads.
(d) Human scalps.

7. What lands on the son's hand at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A leaf.
(b) A snowflake.
(c) A teardrop.
(d) A raindrop.

8. Along the road, what do the father and son encounter that makes them stop?
(a) A herd of sheep.
(b) A dead body.
(c) A jackknifed truck.
(d) A burned out bus.

9. What season is approaching that has the father worried?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

10. At the first location in Chapter 1, what does the father try calling?
(a) His brother's house.
(b) His friend's house.
(c) His old house.
(d) His sister's house.

11. After coming to the roadblock, why do the father and son stop and stay for the night?
(a) It is raining.
(b) They are tired.
(c) It is too windy.
(d) It is snowing.

12. Where are the father and son sleeping at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) In a hotel.
(b) Outside.
(c) In a house.
(d) In a trailer.

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

14. The night after the incident with the man on the road, the father has a dream -- what does he dream about?
(a) His son.
(b) The other woman.
(c) His wife.
(d) His own death.

15. Why is the son becoming increasingly cold?
(a) It is raining.
(b) He has no coat.
(c) It is windy.
(d) It is snowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the weather when the father and son reach the city?

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

3. After finding the items from the cart, what does the boy have a bad dream about?

4. What does the father do to the man who finds their hiding spot?

5. In Chapter 11, what do the father and son do before returning to the woods?

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