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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 find inside the barn that he eats?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Corn seeds.
(c) Peaches.
(d) Wheat.

2. What does the father swim out to inspect while the son stays on the beach?
(a) A person drowning.
(b) An abandoned life raft.
(c) A floating body.
(d) An abandoned boat.

3. What does the father say about their first night back on the road?
(a) It is their worst night so far.
(b) He does not know if he can go on.
(c) They are almost to their destination.
(d) It is their best night so far.

4. Besides asking his father to start a fire while under the bridge, what else does the son ask the father?
(a) Why he did not shoot the people in the pantry.
(b) What they are going to eat for dinner.
(c) If they could not possibly have helped the people in the pantry.
(d) Where they will head next.

5. After he leaves his son safely sleeping, the father explores a barn -- what does he find in the barn?
(a) Two goats and a bag of wheat.
(b) A dead body and a basket of peaches.
(c) Bales of hay and corn seeds.
(d) A cow and a bag of potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the father leads the son to the hidden cellar, what does the father tell his son that good guys do not give in to?

2. What does the son talk about as they leave the hidden cellar?

3. How many days do the father and son stay in the nice house?

4. After leaving the gas station, the father and son continue along the road -- how many men stop them?

5. In Chapter 36, the father and son come to a nice house -- why does the father worry about going inside?

Short Essay Questions

1. Analyze how the son feels about he and his father's changing relationship in Chapter 40, citing an example from the text.

2. Describe three things that the father and son find of use in Chapters 36-40.

3. Describe what the father and son find in Chapter 21 after the father breaks open a locked pantry door.

4. Recall an example from Chapter 31 that demonstrates how the father is dealing with the son growing up.

5. Describe one example from Chapters 36-40 that demonstrates how the father is becoming more reliant on the son's opinion.

6. Describe how the author generates credibility to the father's paranoia about the world.

7. Describe what the father and son find in Chapter 35 that symbolizes the end of the son's innocence.

8. Explain what happens in Chapter 35 that finally makes the father realize that the son is growing up.

9. Explain why the father gives the son a gun after they see the people walking towards the house.

10. Give an example from Chapters 21-25 that shows the father's mistrust.

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