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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The father and the son are becoming increasingly weak, and they sleep in the woods -- what does the father do while the son is asleep?
(a) Searches for food.
(b) Begins to cry quietly.
(c) The father keeps the fire going.
(d) Feels for the son's heartbeat.

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

3. 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 shoot the father if the people find them.
(b) To defend himself if the people find them.
(c) To hide the gun if the people find them.
(d) To kill himself if the people find them.

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

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

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

8. While under the bridge, the son wants a fire, so why does the father not start one?
(a) The father feels hot and does not want a fire.
(b) It would draw too much attention.
(c) The father says they have no firewood.
(d) He has lost the lighter.

9. Before leaving the house and barn, the father and son collect more _______ before they head back on the road.
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Apples.
(d) Peaches.

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

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

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

13. 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 swimming in the ocean.
(b) The son is freezing after going for a run.
(c) The son is freezing after falling in the ocean while looking for shells.
(d) The son is freezing after being in a downpour of rain.

14. How does the son feel about his father going in the ocean?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Excited.
(c) Angry.
(d) Reluctant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the father and son do the morning after the father finds the house and barn?

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

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

4. Why does the father not want to stay in the hidden cellar?

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

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