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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Walker is from Washington, D.C.?

2. How fast must the boys walk not to receive a warning?

3. In Chapter 3, why is Stebbins walking hunched over?

4. What is Baker regularly popping into his mouth in Chapter 8?

5. What does the abandoned, crumbling building have written across it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe McVries' breakdown in Chapter 6.

3. Garraty begins half-dozing while walking after leaving Caribou. What images go through his mind?

4. What happened to Baker's brother?

5. Why does Garraty receive a warning in Chapter 1?

6. What happens to Walker number 9?

7. What is the half-track?

8. Sum up what the boys have to say about love and death in Chapter 4.

9. What happens to Curley in Chapter 2?

10. Describe what happens between Rank and Barkovitch.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 13, Garraty is seconds away from getting his ticket. His internal monologue is rambling, but he keeps mentioning "the phone" and the sounds thundering around him. Discuss what Garraty was going through in those last minutes and what led to his getting up to rejoin the walk just in time.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the dark figure beckoning to Garraty at the end of the book. What/who do you think it is?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 12, the reader finds out more about the reality that "The Long Walk" takes place when Stebbins says that the urge to do good is "when the old realities and moralities are starting to sink in. In the old days, before the Change and the Squads,...they used to set up foundations and build libraries..." Discuss what you believe led to the Change and the Squads and how life changed for people.

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