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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 10, what do the father and son find?
(a) A river.
(b) A creek.
(c) A dead body.
(d) An apple tree.

2. The father has a hard time remembering how to play the games -- what does he do?
(a) He gets embarrassed.
(b) He makes the son look for firewood.
(c) He makes up new ones.
(d) He gets angry.

3. How is the weather when the father and son reach the city?
(a) It's snowing.
(b) It's sunny.
(c) It's raining.
(d) It's windy.

4. What does the father claim about his memory from his childhood?
(a) It is his only memory from his childhood.
(b) It is his only happy memory from his childhood.
(c) It was his worst memory of his childhood.
(d) It was the perfect time of his childhood.

5. At the end of Chapter 8, what does the father cough up?
(a) Mucous.
(b) Blood.
(c) Phlegm.
(d) Food.

6. Just when the father is thinking of leaving the cart he sees their destination -- what does he name it?
(a) The Valley.
(b) The Gap.
(c) The Hallow.
(d) The Point.

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

8. What do the father and the son find in a smokehouse?
(a) A ham.
(b) A leg of lamb.
(c) A pound of bacon.
(d) Rib steaks.

9. What do the father and son find inside a barn?
(a) One body hanging.
(b) A horse.
(c) Two cows and a goat.
(d) Three bodies hanging.

10. What are the father and son trying so hard to find at the supermarket?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A loaf of bread.
(c) A new cart.
(d) A can of soup.

11. How does the father recognize their destination?
(a) He knows it from his father's description.
(b) He knows it from when he was a boy.
(c) He knows it from his wife's description.
(d) He has a feeling that it is the right place.

12. After leaving the woods, the father and son come to a road -- what does the father call this road?
(a) The Endless roads.
(b) The States roads.
(c) The Black roads.
(d) The Forgotten roads.

13. What does the boy find when they take things from the cart?
(a) A basketball.
(b) His mother's necklace.
(c) Toys.
(d) An old pair of shoes.

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

15. How does the son feel about how his father has treated the man who has collapsed on the road?
(a) He is dismayed.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He is relieved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father tell the son has happened to the man who collapses in the road?

2. What does the son find in his pocket that the father and son share?

3. The father wakes from a dream and claims dreaming is not good -- what was he dreaming about?

4. In the morning after finding the city, why does the father step away from the son before he wakes?

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

(see the answer keys)

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