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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After leaving the first location in Chapter 1, what do the father and son turn back to get?
(a) Gas.
(b) Drinks.
(c) Oil.
(d) Food.

2. What does the father use to make wrappings for himself and his son's feet?
(a) An old coat and bits of tarp.
(b) An old shirt and rope.
(c) Pieces of bark and tape.
(d) Giant leaves with twine.

3. As the father and son continue their journey, why is it getting so difficult to push the cart?
(a) The terrain is too rough and covered with rocks.
(b) The cart is falling apart.
(c) The snow is getting worse.
(d) The rain is falling too heavily.

4. After the confrontation with the man who found their hiding spot, where do the father and son stay for the night?
(a) Out of sight in the woods.
(b) Up in a tree.
(c) In an old abandoned house.
(d) In a broken down van.

5. What do the father and son discover in a doorway?
(a) A small child crying.
(b) A gun.
(c) A dead, dried-up body.
(d) A starving dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the father and son find in the woods that they eat for dinner?

2. The father and son eventually find somewhere dry to sleep in the woods, but what wakes them up in the middle of the night and causes them to run?

3. Why is the son becoming increasingly cold?

4. In the morning after finding the city, why does the father step away from the son before he wakes?

5. After leaving the supermarket, how does the son feel about following the father into the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how food is constantly a struggle, comparing how the father and son manage their food.

2. Recall a situation in the text that demonstrates how the son has becomes immune to the sight of death.

3. Describe the father's belief in God.

4. Explain what the father says about the States road.

5. Explain why the father is so overprotective of the son.

6. Describe how the son is more capable of surviving than his father.

7. Explain how the author's descriptions and use of language set the tone for the rest of the novel.

8. Explain how the father demonstrates perseverance in Chapters 16 through 20.

9. Explain what is revealed in Chapter 15 about the father's wife.

10. Recall an example from the first few chapters of the novel that demonstrates the son's concern with mortality.

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