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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. Whom does one of the highway repair men have ten bucks bet on?

2. How many boys receive their ticket on the hill in Chapter 4?

3. What does Hint 12 recommend?

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

5. Who says that Porterville is the only town where there are more graveyards than people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the first spectators that the Walkers see soon after 5 a.m. in Chapter 6?

4. What happened to Baker's brother?

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

6. What happens to Walker number 9?

7. 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?

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

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

10. What is the half-track?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

As Garraty becomes more tired, he begins thinking of Jan more as "the best thing he had every known" and about their first real kiss. Discuss how memories and images of her keep him walking.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 7, Garraty tells the other boys that his dad was Squaded, and Baker talks about participating in something that was a Squading offense. In this book, the author has provided clues about the Squad. Discuss what you know about the Squad, and describe what you believe "Squaded" and "Squading" refers to.

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