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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. What does the father wash out of the son's hair?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Blood.
(c) Paint.
(d) Dirt.
2. While walking through an inhabited town, what are the father and son desperate for?
(a) Food.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Coats.
(d) Water.
3. After finding the items from the cart, what does the boy have a bad dream about?
(a) His father dying.
(b) Freezing to death.
(c) A toy penguin.
(d) His mother's suicide.
4. Where do the father and son hide while spying on the people climbing out of a truck?
(a) In a ditch.
(b) Behind a large tree.
(c) In an abandoned car.
(d) In a bush.
5. After looking for things to enhance their cart, what do the father and son do?
(a) Rest.
(b) Eat.
(c) Drink from a stream.
(d) Have a nice talk.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the father and son find inside a barn?
2. Where are the father and son sleeping at the beginning of Chapter 1?
3. 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?
4. What are the father and son running out of as they travel?
5. At the first location in Chapter 1, what does the father try calling?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain what is revealed in Chapter 15 about the father's wife.
2. Describe a recurring theme throughout Chapters 16 through 20.
3. Describe how the father restricts the son from his humanitarian instincts.
4. At the beginning of Chapter 11, describe where the father and son bathe and what they eat for dinner.
5. Recall examples from Chapters 1-5 that demonstrate how the father tries to protect the son, and how the son tries to protect the father.
6. Recall a situation in the text that demonstrates how the son has becomes immune to the sight of death.
7. Describe how food is constantly a struggle, comparing how the father and son manage their food.
8. Describe what the father makes for their feet in Chapter 20.
9. Describe the father's belief in God.
10. Give one example from Chapter 5 that demonstrates how the father is not functioning well psychologically.
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