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TEST REVIEW PAGE! Vocab: Cannonading-47- In the night a storm broke in the mountains above them and came cannonading down country cracking and booming and the stark gray world would appeared again and again out of the night in the shrouded flare of lightning. To assault with heavy artillery fire.


 * Bludgeon-** to force into something

[pg 149] ruse -- An action intended to deceive someone; a trick

[pg 152] sumptuous -- Splendid and expensive-looking.

Litany(31)- a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response -- using this as a way to remember how times once were, maybe when he used to go to church

Cauterized (14)- To burn or sear with a cautery. -- talking about the burnt wasteland

caustic (pg, 188): Able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action. "...where the lost moon tracked the //caustic// waste he'd sometimes see a light."

leaden (pg, 200): Dull, heavy or slow. Of the color of lead; dull gray. "The coastal plain rivers in //leaden// serpentine across the wasted farmland."

Mastic-48- The hot black mastic sucking at their shows and stretching in thin bands as they stepped. An aromatic gum or resin exuded from the bark of a Mediterranean tree, used in making varnish and chewing gum and as a flavoring

truncheoned: The staff that is held by a leader. It was being held by the leader of the red people. This shows that even in this apocalyptic world there is still leadership


 * Quotes:**

"What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you." (pg 11) That is what the father would do if the boy died, but what would the boy do if his father died? Is the boy strong enough to be on his own.

"I don't want you to look. They'll still be there. He stopped and leaned on the cart. He looked down the road and he looked at the boy. So strangely untroubled." (pg 191) How has the boy changed from the beginning of the book?

"Don't be afraid, he said. If they find you you are going to have to do it. Do you understand? Shh. No crying. Do you hear me? You know how to do it.You put it in your mouth and point it up. Do it quick and hard. Do you understand? Stop crying. Do you understand?" (pg 113) What was the father asking his son to do? Why does the father want his son to do this?

"I dont care. It's meaningless. You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover," What path has the wife taken? Why did she do this?

"What the boy had seen was a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit." (pg 198) What does this horrible thing prove about the '//others'//? Why do you think that the father and son are different?