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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the son do while at the location after the gas station?
(a) He looks for rocks.
(b) He goes swimming.
(c) He takes a nap.
(d) He goes for a run.

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

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

4. After leaving the nice house, the father and son come to a gas station -- what do they find there?
(a) A couple candy bars.
(b) Root beer.
(c) A bag of chips.
(d) Gasoline.

5. After he leaves his son safely sleeping, the father explores a barn -- what does he find in the barn?
(a) Two goats and a bag of wheat.
(b) A dead body and a basket of peaches.
(c) Bales of hay and corn seeds.
(d) A cow and a bag of potatoes.

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

7. How does the father get the men that approach them on the road to leave?
(a) He begs with them to spare his son's life.
(b) He beats the men up.
(c) He asks them nicely to please leave.
(d) He pulls out his gun.

8. After setting up camp, the father wakes up and the son is gone; after looking for him, what does the father see the son doing?
(a) Rushing across the field.
(b) Eating berries from a nearby bush.
(c) Bathing in a nearby creek.
(d) Sitting in an abandoned car.

9. After leaving the hidden cellar and stopping for the night, the son asks the father a question -- how does the father answer?
(a) The father tells him they will eat stuff from the cellar.
(b) The father tells the son he cannot see the gun.
(c) The father asks where the son has heard such a term.
(d) The father tells the son they will not be going back to the hidden cellar.

10. As the father leads the son to the hidden cellar, what does the father tell his son that good guys do not give in to?
(a) Fear.
(b) Manipulation.
(c) Anger.
(d) Threats.

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

12. In Chapter 35, how is the son starting to change?
(a) He is becoming more reckless and does not think before he acts.
(b) He is becoming quieter and barely speaks at all.
(c) He is becoming stronger and offering his point of view.
(d) He is becoming more frightened and relies on his father for everything.

13. Besides asking his father to start a fire while under the bridge, what else does the son ask the father?
(a) If they could not possibly have helped the people in the pantry.
(b) What they are going to eat for dinner.
(c) Where they will head next.
(d) Why he did not shoot the people in the pantry.

14. 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?
(a) About God, in whom the old man says he puts all his faith.
(b) About God, in whom the old man says he no longer believes.
(c) About how the world used to before.
(d) About where they should head next on their journey.

15. The next town the father and son come to they find a nice looking house -- what do they find inside a locked pantry?
(a) Cans of food.
(b) A pile of dead chickens.
(c) Barely alive, naked people.
(d) Two starving children.

Short Answer Questions

1. While on the road, the father and son meet an old man -- what does the son beg his father to give the old man?

2. What do the father and son do in the hidden cellar besides eating?

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

4. How does the father get the son to enter the nice house?

5. The father carries his son across a field, but he has to stop every _____ steps.

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