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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 trying so hard to find at the supermarket?
2. What does the son find in his pocket that the father and son share?
3. What does the father claim about his memory from his childhood?
4. What covers the city that the father and son explore?
5. What type of games do the father and son play?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why it is difficult for the reader to truly assess how bad things are in the world.
2. Describe a recurring theme throughout Chapters 16 through 20.
3. At the beginning of Chapter 11, describe where the father and son bathe and what they eat for dinner.
4. Explain how the father is failing his son.
5. Describe the father's belief in God.
6. Describe what happens when the father and son arrive at the father's old house.
7. Explain what the father says about the States road.
8. Describe two things that the father and son see along their journey in Chapters 16 through 20.
9. Analyze the son's dream about the toy penguin.
10. Give an example that demonstrates the father's stubbornness and how he has somewhat lost touch with reality.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The man and the boy isolate themselves in The Road by hiding in the woods, and they are constantly on the lookout for others while they travel. Analyze the theme of isolation in the novel, and explain how this isolation affects the son, citing examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Describe the theme of survival, citing examples from the text of the different types of survival. Who is more disposed to surviving against the elements -- the father or the son? What motivates the father to survive versus the son
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