The Road Quizzes

The Road Quiz 1

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

Cormac McCarthy

Cullen McCarthy

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

The Crossing

Cities of the Plain

Suttree
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 Crossing

The Road

Blood Meridian

Suttree
5 Where was Cormac McCarthy born?
Texas

Rhode Island

Tennessee

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

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Henry James
7 The name "Cormac" means:
son of John

Charles

son of Charles

John
8 In which of the following genres have McCarthy's works NOT been seriously classified?
crime thriller

Western

science fiction

romance
9 To whom is The Road dedicated?
John Francis McCarthy

Albert Erskine

Cullen McCarthy

Jennifer Winkley
10 With whom did McCarthy give his first televised interview?
Larry King

Bil O'Reilly

Oprah Winfrey

Barbara Walters
11 At the beginning of the novel, what do the protagonists recover from the abandoned gas station?
a telephone

motor oil

nothing

food
12 In what direction are the father and son traveling?
west

south

north

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

Sprite

Coca Cola

Pepsi
14 In what country are the man and his son traveling?
Mexico

United States

Canada

England
15 How is the man wounded when the protagonists are ambushed in an abandoned town?
He is stabbed.

He is shot by a flare pistol.

He is shot by a gun.

An arrow pierces his leg.
16 Where does the man leave his wife's photograph?
in the woods

on the road

in his wallet

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

the man with a shotgun

the pregnant woman

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

summer-fall

fall-winter

spring-summer
19 What do the protagonists find underneath the steel-padlocked door?
food

bullets

fresh water

naked humans
20 What are the long-term goals of the man and the boy?
To leave the country.

None.

To live at the sea.

They do not know.
21 What is the supposed name of the man who spends one night with them?
Eliot

Ely

Evan

Aaron
22 What do they find still smoldering on a spit at a hastily abandoned camp?
unidentified meat

vegetables

a dog

a human infant
23 Translated into English, what is the name of the ship they find by the beach?
Bird of Light

Bird of Prey

Bird of Hope

Angel of Hope
24 What additional weapon do they find on the ship?
rifle

butcher knife

automatic weapon

flare pistol
25 How does the man punish the thief?
he takes all of the thief's clothing and shoes

he kills the thief

he takes all of the thief's food

he beats the thief

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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