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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. How does the son feel about his father going in the ocean?
2. What does the father find inside the barn that he eats?
3. Once the father fills his basket and begins to leave the house, what does he look back and realize is by the house?
4. After passing the boys with the fire, the father and son think someone is following them so they decide to hide -- who do they see walk past?
5. What is unusual about the door to the house in Chapter 36?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe three things that the father finds in Chapters 21-25 that he finds useful.
2. Give an example from Chapters 21-25 that describes the son's naivety.
3. Analyze how the son feels about he and his father's changing relationship in Chapter 40, citing an example from the text.
4. Recall how the father displays his paranoid attitude again while he and the son are staying in the hidden cellar.
5. Describe how the author generates credibility to the father's paranoia about the world.
6. Describe how the son shows his increasing influence on the father in Chapter 31.
7. Explain why the son returns to the fearful version of himself in Chapter 36, and use an example from the text.
8. Describe three things that the father and son find of use in Chapters 36-40.
9. In Chapter 26, describe the son's reaction when the father loses their lighter and cannot make a fire.
10. Explain what happens when the father and son find the old abandoned train -- analyze the father's actions.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although the landscape and destruction are mentioned, the author never explains what caused the devastation. Explore the cause of this devastation, refer to the clues that are provided to the reader.
• How does the landscape suggest an epidemic -- could it be environmental, caused by man through war, or both?
• Why is it difficult to truly assess the situation of the world, and how is the father an unreliable witness?
• How does not explaining the disaster add to the paranoia and confusion that the reader feels from the father?
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
Examine the concept of trust and mistrust in the The Road, also explaining how it affects the son. The father's mistrust of others does keep them safe; however, does it also hold them back? Has the father's mistrust of others made the son naïve about their current situation? How has the father's mistrust of others made the son unhappy?
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