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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the father and son discover in a doorway?
(a) A gun.
(b) A starving dog.
(c) A small child crying.
(d) A dead, dried-up body.

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

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

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

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

7. What does the father fix to the cart to keep the limbs away as they move down the road?
(a) Brushes.
(b) Large leaves.
(c) Brooms.
(d) Pieces of cloth.

8. What does the father do when one of the men they are spying on walks toward their hiding place?
(a) The father tells the son to run.
(b) The father gets ready to jump on the man.
(c) The father pulls out a gun.
(d) The father pulls out a knife.

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

10. As the son becomes even colder, what does he ask his father about again?
(a) If they are dying.
(b) If they can build a bigger fire.
(c) For more food.
(d) For a better coat.

11. What do the father and son eat that is fermented?
(a) Corn.
(b) Ham and potatoes.
(c) Oatmeal.
(d) Rice and beans.

12. 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) His own death.
(c) His wife.
(d) The other woman.

13. After finding the items from the cart, what does the boy have a bad dream about?
(a) His mother's suicide.
(b) Freezing to death.
(c) A toy penguin.
(d) His father dying.

14. While walking through an inhabited town, what are the father and son desperate for?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Coats.
(d) Shoes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After passing the stone wall, what do the father and son hear that makes them hide?

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

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

4. What house do the father and son go to after leaving the supermarket?

5. Upon reaching the road, what does the father say about States?

(see the answer keys)

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