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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After leaving the barn, the father explores the house -- what does he find inside the house that's useful?
(a) A screwdriver.
(b) A wrench.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A knife.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 26, where do the father and son sleep?
(a) In an abandoned house.
(b) Beside a creek.
(c) In the woods.
(d) Under a bridge.

3. What does the father want to do with the food that he and his son find in the nice house?
(a) Burn the food in a fire.
(b) Store the food in their cart.
(c) Throw the food away.
(d) Cook the food really well.

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

5. While on the road, the father and son meet an old man -- what does the son beg his father to give the old man?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Shoes.
(d) A coat.

6. 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.

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

8. 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 pulls out his gun.
(d) He asks them nicely to please leave.

9. After the father and son finish the last of their food supply, what does the son ask the father about eating?
(a) If they will ever have to eat a human.
(b) If they will ever have to eat a horse.
(c) If they will ever have to eat a dog.
(d) If they will ever have to eat a cat.

10. The morning after sleeping on the road, what do the father and son do because the father is worried about their tracks?
(a) They wash away their tracks with water.
(b) They wipe away their tracks with their hands.
(c) They cover their tracks with snow.
(d) They create false tracks.

11. What does the son talk about as they leave the hidden cellar?
(a) Card games.
(b) How tired and hungry he is.
(c) How he wishes he was back in the cellar.
(d) Spaceships and traveling to Mars.

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

13. After passing the boys with the fire, the father and son think someone is following them so they decide to hide -- who do they see walk past?
(a) Two men, a woman, and a baby.
(b) Three men and a pregnant woman.
(c) Two boys and a dog.
(d) One man and two pregnant women.

14. The father and son comb the beach -- what do they find?
(a) Bones of dead dogs.
(b) Bones of dead fish and cattle.
(c) An old man.
(d) A pile of human bodies.

15. 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) An infant.
(c) A rat.
(d) A snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the father and son stop for the night after leaving the hidden cellar, what does the son ask the father?

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

3. In Chapter 35, how is the son starting to change?

4. 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?

5. What does the father say when he and his son enter the hidden cellar?

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