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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 many boys die during Part I of "The Long Walk"?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.

2. How many boys receive their ticket on the hill in Chapter 4?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

3. Who says, "You get paid to shoot me, not to look at me"?
(a) Olson.
(b) McVries.
(c) Barkovitch.
(d) Garraty.

4. After Harkness receives his ticket, what gas station do the Walkers approach?
(a) Mobil.
(b) Shell.
(c) Texaco.
(d) Shamrock.

5. Whom does one of the highway repair men have ten bucks bet on?
(a) McVries.
(b) Barkovitch.
(c) Garraty.
(d) Scramm.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what is the skinny blond boy in the tree eating?

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

3. Who says or thinks, "I could just die laughing, wouldn't that be a scream"?

4. Who gets three warnings due to a charley horse in Chapter 2?

5. In Chapter 4, who sits down at the top of the hill, saying that he only wants to rest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Garraty's mother.

2. What happens to Curley in Chapter 2?

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

4. What happens to the boy named Travin?

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

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

7. Why does Garraty think of Stebbins as the "lean Buddha"?

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

9. Describe Limestone.

10. What happens to Walker number 9?

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