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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Garraty?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Sixteen.

2. Who says that Porterville is the only town where there are more graveyards than people?
(a) The Major.
(b) Garraty's mother.
(c) Garraty's father.
(d) Garraty.

3. Who in Jefferson Plantation puts up a banner congratulating the Walkers on making the 100-mile mark and belonging to this year's "Century Club"?
(a) The high school.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) The Chamber of Commerce.
(d) The PTA.

4. Garraty panics in Chapter 6 when none of the faces around him are familiar. What does he briefly wonder?
(a) If he's wandered off the road to join hiking Boy Scouts.
(b) Whether he's successfully snuck away from the walk.
(c) Whether he's about to get his ticket.
(d) If he's dead.

5. Which Walker is from Washington, D.C.?
(a) Barkovitch.
(b) Stebbins.
(c) Baker.
(d) McVries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Freaky D'Allessio?

2. Garraty recalls reading a story in eighth grade about the crowds that gather at fatal accidents. Who wrote the story?

3. Who asks the other boys about enemas?

4. How is number 38 Gribble described in Chapter 3?

5. Which Walker has a fit of hysteria as they pass the 100-mile mark?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Garraty's mother.

2. What greets the Walkers when they walk into Caribou city limits?

3. Describe Garraty's hometown.

4. What happened two years ago at the marker post that Olson points to?

5. Describe the boy in the pine tree in Chapter 1.

6. In Chapter 5, McVries believes he has discovered the secret to the race. What is it?

7. Garraty feels a superior gratification in Chapter 6. Why?

8. Describe what happens between Rank and Barkovitch.

9. What happens to Percy's mother in Chapter 3?

10. Who is number 45, and what happens to him?

(see the answer keys)

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