The Road Quizzes

The Road Quiz 1

1 What was McCarthy's given name at birth?
Charles McCarthy

John McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cullen McCarthy
2 Which of the following works does not belong in the Border Trilogy?
All the Pretty Horses

Cities of the Plain

Suttree

The Crossing
3 Which of the following works has not been adapted to film?
No Country for Old Men

All the Pretty Horses

Child of God

The Road
4 For which novel was McCarthy awarded a Pulitzer Prize?
The Road

Suttree

Blood Meridian

The Crossing
5 Where was Cormac McCarthy born?
Tennessee

Rhode Island

Texas

Ireland
6 McCarthy's editor for I[The Orchard Keeper] was also the editor for which author?
William Faulkner

Henry James

Ernest Hemingway

Marcel Proust
7 The name "Cormac" means:
John

son of Charles

son of John

Charles
8 In which of the following genres have McCarthy's works NOT been seriously classified?
romance

Western

crime thriller

science fiction
9 To whom is The Road dedicated?
John Francis McCarthy

Jennifer Winkley

Cullen McCarthy

Albert Erskine
10 With whom did McCarthy give his first televised interview?
Barbara Walters

Larry King

Oprah Winfrey

Bil O'Reilly
11 At the beginning of the novel, what do the protagonists recover from the abandoned gas station?
a telephone

motor oil

food

nothing
12 In what direction are the father and son traveling?
south

west

east

north
13 What type of soda can does the man find and give to his son?
Pepsi

Coca Cola

Sprite

Tab
14 In what country are the man and his son traveling?
United States

England

Mexico

Canada
15 How is the man wounded when the protagonists are ambushed in an abandoned town?
An arrow pierces his leg.

He is stabbed.

He is shot by a gun.

He is shot by a flare pistol.
16 Where does the man leave his wife's photograph?
in the woods

in his wallet

in the ocean

on the road
17 Who does the man shoot in the head with the pistol?
the thief

the pregnant woman

the man with a shotgun

the man from the truck
18 During what time of the year does The Road take place?
summer-fall

spring-summer

winter-spring

fall-winter
19 What do the protagonists find underneath the steel-padlocked door?
fresh water

bullets

naked humans

food
20 What are the long-term goals of the man and the boy?
They do not know.

None.

To leave the country.

To live at the sea.
21 What is the supposed name of the man who spends one night with them?
Evan

Ely

Aaron

Eliot
22 What do they find still smoldering on a spit at a hastily abandoned camp?
a dog

unidentified meat

a human infant

vegetables
23 Translated into English, what is the name of the ship they find by the beach?
Bird of Prey

Angel of Hope

Bird of Hope

Bird of Light
24 What additional weapon do they find on the ship?
butcher knife

flare pistol

automatic weapon

rifle
25 How does the man punish the thief?
he kills the thief

he takes all of the thief's clothing and shoes

he beats the thief

he takes all of the thief's food

I do not see why not. We really do not know when and how far they drove. The truck may not have been damaged and they could have had reserve fuel.

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The Road, Part 4

This section provides another example of foreshadowing. As the man explains to his son that the once-grand house is located on what was once a plantation, he doesn't yet know that there are people locked up in the basement of that very same...

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Memory is mentioned several times on page 131. What is the significance of this passage

The section on page 131 regarding memory is important because it depicts the way memory can be a source of both pain and hope. For the man, this is especially true, as he remembers that his wife chose to take her own life, rather than accompany...

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

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