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56 pages 1 hour read

Cormac McCarthy, Raymond E. Feist

The Road

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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Pages 1-77

Reading Check

1. Where do the man and boy keep their belongings?

2. What do the man and boy do for the burned man whom they meet on the road?

3. What does the man do to the stranger they meet in the woods?

4. What does the man find in the abandoned truck trailer?

Multiple Choice

1. Why are the man and the boy headed south?

A) They are being hunted by blood cults.

B) They need to get to a warmer place.

C) They have exhausted all the food in the area.

D) They want to be somewhere new after a loss.

2. Why does the man want the boy to drink all of the Coca-Cola?

A) It’s the boy’s birthday.

B) The man has a rotting tooth that’s going untreated.

C) It’s the last one the boy will ever have.

D) The boy has been brave.

3. Where do the man and boy go that scares the boy?

A) the man’s childhood home

B) an open grave

C) the dark woods

D) a hospital

4. What little promise does the man break, leading the boy to worry he’ll break big ones?

A) keeping the amount of food they have left to himself

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