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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 do to the man who finds their hiding spot?
(a) He beats the man to death.
(b) He shoots the man in the head.
(c) He shoots the man in the chest.
(d) He stabs the man in the chest.

2. The day after the father and son make cakes, what happens when the son calls out to the person who approaches him?
(a) The person runs up to the son.
(b) The person runs away.
(c) The person starts yelling at the son.
(d) The person stops and stares and the son.

3. What do the father and son do when they reach the city?
(a) They set up camp and fall asleep.
(b) They scavenge for money and goods.
(c) They start looking for food.
(d) They break into an abandoned hotel.

4. After the father and son flee the woods and find their cart, why is the boy struggling to walk?
(a) His leg is broken.
(b) The snow reaches his knees.
(c) He is badly burned.
(d) He has been shot.

5. What does the father do when one of the men they are spying on walks toward their hiding place?
(a) The father pulls out a gun.
(b) The father pulls out a knife.
(c) The father tells the son to run.
(d) The father gets ready to jump on the man.

Short Answer Questions

1. After coming to the roadblock, why do the father and son stop and stay for the night?

2. At the end of Chapter 8, what does the father cough up?

3. After reaching the city, what does the son ask the father about before nightfall?

4. What do the father and son find inside a trailer along the road?

5. What does the father claim could happen to himself and his son if they get wet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what happens in Chapter 16 when a little boy comes up to the son.

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

3. Describe how the father restricts the son from his humanitarian instincts.

4. After traveling through the mountains, explain how the father knows he and his son have reached their destination.

5. Explain why it is difficult for the reader to truly assess how bad things are in the world.

6. Explain what the father does in Chapters 11-15 that accentuates his paranoia, citing an example.

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

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

9. Describe what the father makes for their feet in Chapter 20.

10. Describe how the author creates a sparse, bleak feeling at the beginning of the novel.

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