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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 make with some bottles and gasoline?
(a) A fire.
(b) Lamps.
(c) Bombs.
(d) Toys.
2. What do the father and son do in the hidden cellar besides eating?
(a) They play cards.
(b) They wrestle.
(c) They take a bath.
(d) They organize the supplies.
3. How does the father get the men that approach them on the road to leave?
(a) He begs with them to spare his son's life.
(b) He pulls out his gun.
(c) He beats the men up.
(d) He asks them nicely to please leave.
4. The morning after sleeping on the road, what do the father and son do because the father is worried about their tracks?
(a) They wash away their tracks with water.
(b) They create false tracks.
(c) They wipe away their tracks with their hands.
(d) They cover their tracks with snow.
5. At the beginning of Chapter 36, how many days has it been since the father and son have eaten?
(a) Three days.
(b) Two days.
(c) Five days.
(d) Six days.
Short Answer Questions
1. After he leaves his son safely sleeping, the father explores a barn -- what does he find in the barn?
2. After resting in the truck, the father and son find a house -- what does the father find in a tool shed?
3. What does the father swim out to inspect while the son stays on the beach?
4. After leaving the gas station, the father and son continue along the road -- how many men stop them?
5. While on the beach, why does the father need to warm the son up with a fire and food?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain what happens in Chapter 35 that finally makes the father realize that the son is growing up.
2. Describe one example from Chapters 36-40 that demonstrates how the father is becoming more reliant on the son's opinion.
3. Recall an example from Chapter 31 that demonstrates how the father is dealing with the son growing up.
4. Describe how the author generates credibility to the father's paranoia about the world.
5. Describe what the father and son find in Chapter 21 after the father breaks open a locked pantry door.
6. Give an example from Chapters 26-30 of where the author uses foreshadowing.
7. Describe what the father and son find in Chapter 35 that symbolizes the end of the son's innocence.
8. Give an example from Chapters 21-25 that shows the father's mistrust.
9. Analyze how the son feels about he and his father's changing relationship in Chapter 40, citing an example from the text.
10. In Chapter 26, describe the son's reaction when the father loses their lighter and cannot make a fire.
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