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

2. What does the father wonder after seeing his son's reaction to finding the hidden cellar?
(a) Why the son is so excited.
(b) How much more the son can take.
(c) Why the son runs away.
(d) How his son can cry so easily.

3. What is unusual about the door to the house in Chapter 36?
(a) The door is missing on the house.
(b) It is hanging off the hinges.
(c) It is propped open.
(d) It is barred shut with deadbolts.

4. 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) Barely alive, naked people.
(c) A pile of dead chickens.
(d) Two starving children.

5. After leaving their camp, what does the father spy some boys burning?
(a) Rats.
(b) Snakes.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A baby.

6. 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) Gasoline.
(d) A bag of chips.

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

8. Where do the father and son travel to after leaving the gas station?
(a) An old amusement park.
(b) The train station.
(c) The beach.
(d) A hotel.

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

10. 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 stronger and offering his point of view.
(c) He is becoming more frightened and relies on his father for everything.
(d) He is becoming quieter and barely speaks at all.

11. After the father and son hide from the people walking towards the nice house, why does the father give the son a gun?
(a) To hide the gun if the people find them.
(b) To shoot the father if the people find them.
(c) To kill himself if the people find them.
(d) To defend himself if the people find them.

12. While on the beach, why does the father need to warm the son up with a fire and food?
(a) The son is freezing after going for a run.
(b) The son is freezing after falling in the ocean while looking for shells.
(c) The son is freezing after being in a downpour of rain.
(d) The son is freezing after swimming in the ocean.

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

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

15. How many days do the father and son stay in the nice house?
(a) Four days.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Two days.
(d) Three days.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Besides asking his father to start a fire while under the bridge, what else does the son ask the father?

3. What does the father find in a gas station that helps him to know where they are?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 36, how many days has it been since the father and son have eaten?

5. 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?

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