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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) Corn seeds.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Wheat.

2. 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?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Threats.
(d) Manipulation.

3. In Chapter 35, how is the son starting to change?
(a) He is becoming more frightened and relies on his father for everything.
(b) He is becoming more reckless and does not think before he acts.
(c) He is becoming stronger and offering his point of view.
(d) He is becoming quieter and barely speaks at all.

4. How does the son feel about the beach?
(a) He wants to stay a few days, but leave eventually.
(b) He wants to leave the beach tomorrow.
(c) He wants to leave the beach immediately.
(d) He wants to stay at the beach.

5. After the father and son hide from the people walking towards the nice house, why does the father give the son a gun?
(a) To shoot the father if the people find them.
(b) To kill himself if the people find them.
(c) To defend himself if the people find them.
(d) To hide the gun if the people find them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the father and son do the morning after the father finds the house and barn?

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

3. After the father finds his son, who had wandered off while he was asleep, what does the son tell the father he has found?

4. The father carries his son across a field, but he has to stop every _____ steps.

5. After passing the boys with the fire, the father and son think someone is following them so they decide to hide -- who do they see walk past?

Short Essay Questions

1. Recall how the father displays his paranoid attitude again while he and the son are staying in the hidden cellar.

2. Explain what happens when the father and son find the old abandoned train -- analyze the father's actions.

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

4. Describe what things the father and son find while at the beach in Chapter 40.

5. Describe how the son shows his increasing influence on the father in Chapter 31.

6. Analyze the son's reaction when, in Chapters 36-40, he realizes that the father is becoming more reliant on his opinion.

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

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

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

10. Describe how the father treats the old man that he and the son meet in Chapter 31.

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