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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. After the father finds his son, who had wandered off while he was asleep, what does the son tell the father he has found?
(a) A bush with berries.
(b) A creek.
(c) A car.
(d) A train.

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

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

4. Near the tool shed, the father uncovers a locked trap door to a hidden cellar -- how does the son react?
(a) He runs away.
(b) He begins to cry and passes out.
(c) He excitedly asks his father to enter.
(d) He begs the father not to enter.

5. What does the father want to do with the food that he and his son find in the nice house?
(a) Throw the food away.
(b) Burn the food in a fire.
(c) Cook the food really well.
(d) Store the food in their cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Things are not going well for the father and son -- what are they running out of?

2. What does the father find inside the barn that he eats?

3. After leaving their camp, what does the father spy some boys burning?

4. In Chapter 35, how is the son starting to change?

5. After leaving the nice house, the father and son come to a gas station -- what do they find there?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Explain why the son returns to the fearful version of himself in Chapter 36, and use an example from the text.

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

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

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

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

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