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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. In Chapter 15, what Walker begins screaming repeatedly?
2. What does the soldier who gives Garraty his third warning look like?
3. What does Garraty compare the crowd in Augusta to?
4. What does Garraty's spine feel like in Chapter 14?
5. How much time did McVries have from the time he was notified until the walk would start?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Parker's analogy about crackers and how they compare to the Walkers.
2. Why does Garraty want to see Barkovitch in Chapter 14?
3. What is Pearson's plan for when he feels like he can't go on and why won't it work, according to Garraty?
4. What is more gruesome about Olson's murder than most of the previous ones? What reactions are there?
5. What does Garraty reveal about Jimmy Owens in Chapter 11?
6. In Garraty's mind, why are there probably pine trees planted on the median in Chapter 11?
7. In Chapter 11, the boys are honored by the color guard. How do the Walkers respond and why?
8. What does McVries do to try to keep Garraty from obsessing over the time?
9. What would Garraty like to be doing on an 80-degree day if he weren't on the walk?
10. What upsets McVries about the boys in the leather jackets at the front?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 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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