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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At the end of Chapter 9, what does the father claim about the men of the world?
(a) The only men left are good men.
(b) He is the only man left who's sane.
(c) The men of the world are defeated.
(d) There are no godly men left.

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

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

7. As the father and son continue their journey, why is it getting so difficult to push the cart?
(a) The cart is falling apart.
(b) The snow is getting worse.
(c) The terrain is too rough and covered with rocks.
(d) The rain is falling too heavily.

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. 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) Pushes the son out of the way.
(d) Yells at the son to run.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the father and son find that they use to make cakes?

2. As it becomes increasingly cold, what does the father begin to wonder?

3. After leaving the woods, the father and son come to a road -- what does the father call this road?

4. How is the weather when the father and son reach the city?

5. After leaving the supermarket, how does the son feel about following the father into the house?

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