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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. After leaving the nice house, the father and son come to a gas station -- what do they find there?
2. How does the son feel about the beach?
3. How many days do the father and son stay in the nice house?
4. What does the father find in the nice house that he thinks could be poison?
5. Near the tool shed, the father uncovers a locked trap door to a hidden cellar -- how does the son react?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why the son returns to the fearful version of himself in Chapter 36, and use an example from the text.
2. Describe how the son shows his increasing influence on the father in Chapter 31.
3. Describe what the father and son find in Chapter 21 after the father breaks open a locked pantry door.
4. Explain why the father gives the son a gun after they see the people walking towards the house.
5. Describe three things that the father finds in Chapters 21-25 that he finds useful.
6. Analyze how the son feels about he and his father's changing relationship in Chapter 40, citing an example from the text.
7. Explain how the son begins questioning his father's judgment in Chapters 26-30.
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. Recall an example from Chapter 31 that demonstrates how the father is dealing with the son growing up.
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 father insists that there are good and bad guys in the world, leading the reader to believe a "bad" group of people are responsible for the destruction. How are good people set apart from bad people in the story? What are the major characteristics that good people have that bad people don't? How does the father distinguish between the good and bad people?
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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