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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. What has happened to the woman that the father has a dream about?
(a) She's dead.
(b) She's healthy and happy.
(c) She's alone and pregnant.
(d) She's hurt.

5. 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 runs away.
(b) The person starts yelling at the son.
(c) The person runs up to the son.
(d) The person stops and stares and the son.

6. What does the father notice that makes him question whether he is a good father?
(a) How thin his son is getting.
(b) How tired his son is getting.
(c) How sad his son is getting.
(d) How sick his son is getting.

7. While trying to shelter themselves from the rain, what does the father talk to the son about for a long period of time?
(a) The impenetrable rain.
(b) The impenetrable future.
(c) The impenetrable blackness.
(d) The impenetrable sunshine.

8. What does the father use to make wrappings for himself and his son's feet?
(a) An old shirt and rope.
(b) An old coat and bits of tarp.
(c) Giant leaves with twine.
(d) Pieces of bark and tape.

9. After looking for things to enhance their cart, what do the father and son do?
(a) Have a nice talk.
(b) Eat.
(c) Drink from a stream.
(d) Rest.

10. What type of games do the father and son play?
(a) Board games.
(b) Cards.
(c) Hide and seek.
(d) Charades.

11. The father wakes from a dream and claims dreaming is not good -- what was he dreaming about?
(a) A nightmare of his son being killed.
(b) A woman he once knew.
(c) His wife's suicide.
(d) His childhood.

12. What does the father remember about his own childhood?
(a) Playing with his friends on a lake.
(b) Boating with his uncle on a lake.
(c) His mother baking pies.
(d) His dad taking him fishing.

13. What does the son think is close by the barn?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Apples.
(d) Corn.

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

15. What time is it when the father and son make their way down to the city?
(a) 9:00 a.m.
(b) 12:00 p.m.
(c) 10:00 a.m.
(d) 7:00 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along the road, the father and son come upon a man -- what is wrong with the man?

2. What do the father and son do when they reach the city?

3. Where are the father and son sleeping at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. What do the father and son have to get through or it could mean their death?

5. What are the father and son trying so hard to find at the supermarket?

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