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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. What restaurants does Garraty notice in Limestone?

2. How old is Garraty?

3. Where do the boys expect to see the ocean?

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

5. Whose quote begins Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Harkness want to do when the Long Walk ends?

3. Describe Garraty's mother.

4. What happened to Baker's brother?

5. What food does Garraty wish for in Chapter 7?

6. What causes Garraty to almost lose it in Chapter 8, and how does McVries help him?

7. What happens to Curley in Chapter 2?

8. Describe what happens between Rank and Barkovitch.

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

10. Garraty wants to know why there aren't more people watching the Long Walk in Chapter 8. Who explains why and what is the explanation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What would you have done if you were one of the Walkers? Would you still be walking to the end? What would your physical and emotional condition be?

Essay Topic 2

McVries asks the question, "Who's in the cage. Us or them?" in Chapter 14. Discuss what he means and answer his question, in your opinion. Support your answer with references from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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