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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 Hallow.
(c) The Point.
(d) The Gap.

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

3. In Chapter 11, what do the father and son do before returning to the woods?
(a) They talk about their journey so far.
(b) They sit and watch the birds.
(c) They rest.
(d) They wash themselves.

4. What do the father and son have to get through or it could mean their death?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The desert.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The plains.

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

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

7. In the morning after finding the city, why does the father step away from the son before he wakes?
(a) The father is looking for water.
(b) The father is crying and does not want the son to hear.
(c) The father is looking for food.
(d) The father does not want the son to hear him coughing.

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

9. What do the father and son do when they reach the city?
(a) They scavenge for money and goods.
(b) They start looking for food.
(c) They set up camp and fall asleep.
(d) They break into an abandoned hotel.

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

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

12. 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 has a feeling that it is the right place.
(d) He knows it from his wife's description.

13. What do the father and son do after their discovery in the trailer?
(a) They build a fire.
(b) They stop and rest.
(c) They move on.
(d) They call for help.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the father and son eat that is fermented?

2. The father and son eventually find somewhere dry to sleep in the woods, but what wakes them up in the middle of the night and causes them to run?

3. In Chapter 11, how would the father and son describe the dinner that they prepared?

4. The son asks the father if they are going to die -- what is the father's reply?

5. What does the father remember about his own childhood?

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