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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 does the father wonder after seeing his son's reaction to finding the hidden cellar?
2. At the beginning of Chapter 26, where do the father and son sleep?
3. What do the father and son do in the hidden cellar besides eating?
4. After spying on the people walking by, further down the road the father and son see a fire and smell food -- what do the they find cooking on the fire?
5. The next town the father and son come to they find a nice looking house -- what do they find inside a locked pantry?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how the father makes lamps before he and the son enter the hidden cellar.
2. Give an example from Chapters 26-30 of where the author uses foreshadowing.
3. In Chapter 26, describe the son's reaction when the father loses their lighter and cannot make a fire.
4. Describe how the son shows his increasing influence on the father in Chapter 31.
5. Describe three things that the father finds in Chapters 21-25 that he finds useful.
6. In Chapter 30, describe how the son acts like a child for the first time.
7. Describe how the father treats the old man that he and the son meet in Chapter 31.
8. Analyze how the son feels about he and his father's changing relationship in Chapter 40, citing an example from the text.
9. Explain how the son begins questioning his father's judgment in Chapters 26-30.
10. Give an example from Chapters 21-25 that describes the son's naivety.
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
Explore the use of foreshadowing in the novel and analyze how it affects the story. How has this technique affected the plot of the story? Cite examples from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 3
Explore the theme of death in The Road. How are the father and son dealing with the thought of death? How does the son's view of death compare to the father's? Is the son naive about death?
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