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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 do in the hidden cellar besides eating?
(a) They play cards.
(b) They take a bath.
(c) They organize the supplies.
(d) They wrestle.

2. What does the son think is inside the nice house?
(a) Wild dogs.
(b) A person.
(c) Spiders.
(d) A bomb.

3. How far away are the father and son from where the father thought they actually were?
(a) Hundred miles.
(b) Thirty miles.
(c) Twenty miles.
(d) Fifty miles.

4. After spying on the people walking by, further down the road the father and son see a fire and smell food -- what do the they find cooking on the fire?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A rat.
(c) A snake.
(d) An infant.

5. In Chapter 36, the father and son come to a nice house -- why does the father worry about going inside?
(a) There are dead bodies inside the house.
(b) The three people they met earlier may be inside.
(c) The house could have traps.
(d) They will waste too much time.

6. The father and son sit in a truck surrounded by billboards -- what does one of the billboards say?
(a) Warns of death.
(b) Advertises a cruise line.
(c) Warns of famine.
(d) Advertises Coke.

7. After leaving the gas station, the father and son continue along the road -- how many men stop them?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

8. After the son asks the father if he is dying, they stop to rest and set up camp -- how many days do they stay in this same spot?
(a) Five days.
(b) Three days.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Two days.

9. After resting in the truck, the father and son find a house -- what does the father find in a tool shed?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) A dead body.
(c) An ax.
(d) Oil.

10. Things are not going well for the father and son -- what are they running out of?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Energy.
(d) Clothing.

11. Although they have no food and all they eat is snow, what does the father continue to tell the son?
(a) They will find food.
(b) That they are almost to safety.
(c) That snow will keep them strong.
(d) They are not going to die.

12. The father carries his son across a field, but he has to stop every _____ steps.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Ten.

13. How are the father and son feeling when they leave the hidden cellar?
(a) Tired and anxious.
(b) Sick to their stomachs and in low spirits.
(c) They have full stomachs and are in high spirits.
(d) Upset with each other because the son wants to stay.

14. At the beginning of Chapter 36, how many days has it been since the father and son have eaten?
(a) Two days.
(b) Six days.
(c) Five days.
(d) Three days.

15. After leaving the gas station, what do the men that stop the father and son want?
(a) The men ask what the father and son have in their cart.
(b) The men want the father and son's shoes.
(c) The men demand that the father hand over the son.
(d) The men want the father and son to give them their clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. After leaving the hidden cellar and stopping for the night, the son asks the father a question -- how does the father answer?

2. What does the son talk about as they leave the hidden cellar?

3. After exploring the house the father heads back outside -- what does he find?

4. The old man that the father and son meet on the road stays with them for the night -- what do the father and the old man talk about?

5. Near the tool shed, the father uncovers a locked trap door to a hidden cellar -- how does the son react?

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