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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. Who describes his feet as having migraines in Chapter 15?

2. Garraty remembers getting water cramps once after drinking a lot of ice-cold water. What activity had made him so thirsty?

3. When the Walkers are only thirteen miles from Freeport, how many Walkers remain?

4. What are Veazie and Winterport, mentioned in Chapter 12?

5. What is Jan waving when Garraty first sees her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fear does Garraty begin obsessing over in Chapter 15, thanks to Stebbins, and why does it upset him so?

2. Why does Garraty feel a twinge of excitement when he sees a turnpike sign saying that Oldtown is sixteen miles away?

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. Garraty was once frightened by a movie starting Robert Mitchum. What was the movie about and why is Garraty thinking about it?

5. How does Barkovitch die?

6. What does Stebbins mean when he says to Garraty, "Maybe it's your edge"?

7. When it becomes inevitable that Scramm will die, what do the other Walkers decide to do?

8. What would Garraty like to be doing on an 80-degree day if he weren't on the walk?

9. In Chapter 11, the boys are honored by the color guard. How do the Walkers respond and why?

10. Explain Parker's analogy about crackers and how they compare to the Walkers.

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

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

Good vs. evil is a theme in "The Long Walk". Most of the Walkers with the exception of Barkovitch are considered good. The soldiers and the Major are evil. Write about this aspect of the book. Is this solely affected by point of view or there other reasons that the soldiers are viewed as evil?

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