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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. The morning after sleeping on the road, what do the father and son do because the father is worried about their tracks?
(a) They create false tracks.
(b) They wipe away their tracks with their hands.
(c) They cover their tracks with snow.
(d) They wash away their tracks with water.

2. After leaving the barn, the father explores the house -- what does he find inside the house that's useful?
(a) A screwdriver.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A knife.
(d) A wrench.

3. What is unusual about the door to the house in Chapter 36?
(a) It is hanging off the hinges.
(b) The door is missing on the house.
(c) It is barred shut with deadbolts.
(d) It is propped open.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 26, where do the father and son sleep?
(a) Under a bridge.
(b) In the woods.
(c) Beside a creek.
(d) In an abandoned house.

5. After exploring the house the father heads back outside -- what does he find?
(a) Apples.
(b) Tomatoes
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Peaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father wonder after seeing his son's reaction to finding the hidden cellar?

2. What does the father say about their first night back on the road?

3. While on the road, the father and son meet an old man -- what does the son beg his father to give the old man?

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

5. How does the son feel about his father going in the ocean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 30, describe how the son acts like a child for the first time.

4. Give an example from Chapters 21-25 that describes the son's naivety.

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

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

7. Explain how the son begins questioning his father's judgment in Chapters 26-30.

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

9. Describe how the father makes lamps before he and the son enter the hidden cellar.

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

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