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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first location that the father and son walk to in Chapter 1?
(a) An abandoned gas station.
(b) An abandoned hotel.
(c) An abandoned hospital.
(d) An abandoned grocery store.

2. What does the father do to the man who finds their hiding spot?
(a) He shoots the man in the chest.
(b) He shoots the man in the head.
(c) He stabs the man in the chest.
(d) He beats the man to death.

3. Upon reaching the road, what does the father say about States?
(a) That they do not exist anymore.
(b) That they do still exist.
(c) That they are important.
(d) That they are slowly dwindling.

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

5. What does the father do to the son after they come upon the thing in the doorway?
(a) Reassures the son.
(b) Yells at the son to look away.
(c) Yells at the son to run.
(d) Pushes the son out of the way.

6. While traveling, why do the father and son leave their fires alight?
(a) So fellow travelers can follow them.
(b) To help ward off wild animals.
(c) So no one can know exactly where they are.
(d) To help them if they get lost.

7. What does the father decide to do about the man who has collapsed on the road?
(a) The father shoots the man in the head to end his misery.
(b) The father pushes the man out of the way and yells at him.
(c) The father helps the man.
(d) The father leaves the man where he lies and they walk on.

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

9. After leaving the city, what direction do the father and son head?
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) East.
(d) North.

10. 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) In a broken down van.
(d) Up in a tree.

11. 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 cars.
(d) He does not see any lights.

12. The day after the father and son make cakes, who approaches the son?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A boy.
(c) An old man.
(d) A girl.

13. 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) He is badly burned.
(d) The snow reaches his knees.

14. Near the edge of a city, the father and son come to a house -- what does the father find inside the house?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Coats.
(d) Food.

15. After leaving the first location in Chapter 1, what do the father and son turn back to get?
(a) Drinks.
(b) Food.
(c) Gas.
(d) Oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite his son's protests, what does the father do to the son after the person approaches him in the inhabited village?

2. At the end of Chapter 10, what do the father and son find?

3. What does the father claim could happen to himself and his son if they get wet?

4. What does the boy find when they take things from the cart?

5. What does the father fix to the cart to keep the limbs away as they move down the road?

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