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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the father and son running out of as they travel?
2. What do the father and son do when they reach the city?
3. After reaching the city, what does the son ask the father about before nightfall?
4. In Chapter 11, how would the father and son describe the dinner that they prepared?
5. What does the boy find when they take things from the cart?
Short Essay Questions
1. After traveling through the mountains, explain how the father knows he and his son have reached their destination.
2. Describe how the father restricts the son from his humanitarian instincts.
3. Give an example from Chapter 11 where the father demonstrates his love for his son.
4. Recall examples from Chapters 1-5 that demonstrate how the father tries to protect the son, and how the son tries to protect the father.
5. Explain why the father is so overprotective of the son.
6. Explain how the author's descriptions and use of language set the tone for the rest of the novel.
7. Explain how the father is failing his son.
8. Explain what the father does in Chapters 11-15 that accentuates his paranoia, citing an example.
9. Recall what question the son asks the father repeatedly and relate it to the father's coughing fits.
10. At the beginning of Chapter 11, describe where the father and son bathe and what they eat for dinner.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the father's psychological state and how it pertains to the story. How does his mental state affect the decisions that he makes? Are these decisions helping or hurting himself and his son?
Essay Topic 2
In The Road, the cities are deserted or destroyed, plant life is gone, animals have disappeared. Something catastrophic has happened to the world. Examine the conflict of Person vs. Nature, citing examples from the text that demonstrate how the characters are up against the forces of nature.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the theme of extinction or "the end of the world." How has near extinction caused humans to act in The Road? Would people really react this way? What are signs that the earth has been mistreated? Are there any signs that the earth is healing itself?
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