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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. How old is Garraty?

2. What number is Garraty?

3. What is Garraty's hometown?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the boy named Travin?

2. What happens to Walker number 9?

3. Describe McVries' breakdown in Chapter 6.

4. Describe Garraty's hometown.

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

6. Describe Garraty's mother.

7. What happens with Hint 10 in Chapter 3?

8. Describe Limestone.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The boys realize that there can only be one winner and that the sooner the others around them get their tickets, the sooner they can stop walking. Yet many of them continue to urge each other on, even though doing so extends their own suffering. Why do they do this?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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