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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 horse.
(b) If they will ever have to eat a human.
(c) If they will ever have to eat a dog.
(d) If they will ever have to eat a cat.

2. What does the father make with some bottles and gasoline?
(a) Toys.
(b) Lamps.
(c) A fire.
(d) Bombs.

3. What does the father say about their first night back on the road?
(a) He does not know if he can go on.
(b) It is their worst night so far.
(c) It is their best night so far.
(d) They are almost to their destination.

4. 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) They will waste too much time.
(d) The house could have traps.

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

6. What do the father and son find in the nice house?
(a) Gallons of water, shoes, and a wagon.
(b) Tins of food, clothes, and a wheelbarrow.
(c) A barrel of apples, blankets, and a backpack.
(d) Packets of freeze-dried food, a pillow, and a bike.

7. 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 rat.
(b) An infant.
(c) A snake.
(d) A rabbit.

8. When the father and son stop for the night after leaving the hidden cellar, what does the son ask the father?
(a) What their long term goals are.
(b) What they will eat for dinner.
(c) If he can see the gun.
(d) If they can go back to the hidden cellar.

9. What does the father swim out to inspect while the son stays on the beach?
(a) A floating body.
(b) An abandoned boat.
(c) A person drowning.
(d) An abandoned life raft.

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

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

12. 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 boys and a dog.
(b) Two men, a woman, and a baby.
(c) One man and two pregnant women.
(d) Three men and a pregnant woman.

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

14. 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.

15. What does the father find in the nice house that he thinks could be poison?
(a) Freeze-dried food.
(b) Tins of food.
(c) Apples.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the son feel about entering the nice house?

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

3. After leaving their camp, what does the father spy some boys burning?

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

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

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