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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 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 break into an abandoned hotel.
(d) They start looking for food.

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

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

4. When did the father's wife shoot herself?
(a) Right before they started their road trip.
(b) When the son was born.
(c) When the son was two.
(d) After they had gotten in a fight.

5. What season is approaching that has the father worried?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, how would the father and son describe the dinner that they prepared?

2. In Chapter 11, what do the father and son do before returning to the woods?

3. What does the father do to the son after they come upon the thing in the doorway?

4. What do the father and the son find in a smokehouse?

5. What does the father fix to the cart to keep the limbs away as they move down the road?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. At the beginning of Chapter 11, describe where the father and son bathe and what they eat for dinner.

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

8. Describe the father's belief in God.

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

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

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