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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 in a gas station that helps him to know where they are?
(a) A telephone directory.
(b) The address on the gas station's door.
(c) A sign.
(d) He recognizes the gas station as one from his childhood.

2. The father and the son are becoming increasingly weak, and they sleep in the woods -- what does the father do while the son is asleep?
(a) The father keeps the fire going.
(b) Feels for the son's heartbeat.
(c) Begins to cry quietly.
(d) Searches for food.

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

4. How does the weather change once the father and son leave the house and barn and are back on the road?
(a) It begins hailing.
(b) The wind picks up.
(c) It begins snowing.
(d) It begins raining.

5. The next town the father and son come to they find a nice looking house -- what do they find inside a locked pantry?
(a) Cans of food.
(b) A pile of dead chickens.
(c) Barely alive, naked people.
(d) Two starving children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While on the beach, why does the father need to warm the son up with a fire and food?

3. After resting in the truck, the father and son find a house -- what does the father find in a tool shed?

4. Once the father fills his basket and begins to leave the house, what does he look back and realize is by the house?

5. What does the father want to do with the food that he and his son find in the nice house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. In Chapter 26, describe the son's reaction when the father loses their lighter and cannot make a fire.

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

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

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

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