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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After leaving the city, what direction do the father and son head?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) North.

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

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

5. 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 dad taking him fishing.
(d) His mother baking pies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What do the father and son find that they use to make cakes?
(a) Flour.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Cornmeal.
(d) Oatmeal.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the father and son running out of as they travel?

4. The father has a hard time remembering how to play the games -- what does he do?

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

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