Tickets, Please! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Curley

The Long Walk knows no mercy, not even if you get a charley horse just over two hours in. In fact, none of the groups that had contested the Walk before even lasted that long. When he could not keep walking, Curley was eliminated by four soldiers simultaneously shooting at his head with heavy ammunition - a quick but messy death that is most common method of being taken out of the Long Walk.

Answer: Ewing

It pays to follow the rulebook which clearly stated that wearing sneakers was a bad idea because they tend to quickly cause blisters. Ewing didn't heed that advice and, five hours into the Walk, lost pace. After seeing what happened to Curley, he tried to take cover in a group of walkers, but to no avail: he was dragged out of the group by soldiers and shot at point blank range.

Answer: Travin

The novel rather frequently touches on an obvious problem - answering the call of nature when you have to be constantly walking at 4 miles per hour. Most of the walkers walk backwards to urinate and thus manage to do so while neither incurring a warning nor soiling themselves, but a bowel movement is a different matter. Travin suffered the most embarrassing death in the book when he couldn't deal with diarrhea.

He was to remain the only one shown dying while doing his business - everyone else managed to finish before their time (two minutes if they had no warning, less if they did) was up.

Answer: Rank

After the first ten deaths, placings sometimes get a little murky - the book does not chronicle every single elimination. This particular death was caused by Barkovich, a nasty and cruel boy who taunted Rank until the latter attacked him. As physically interfering with other Walkers is forbidden, he was immediately warned for each attack and quickly accumulated enough to get shot. Barkovich himself survived the altercation.

Answer: Percy

Percy was cursed with a helicopter mother, certainly not an asset for a Walker. However, regardless of what she did, she could not stop him from taking part. Percy - we never get to know his last name - did get second thoughts on his own, and, just before the 24 hour mark, made an attempt to flee into the woods.

However, surveillance was complete and he immediately took a shot to the heart. His mother later almost got herself killed as she was hysterically trying to locate her son - if she had entered the road, she would have been shot herself. Three more Walkers would fall on the first full day, leaving 64 of them to make it into day two.

Answer: Jensen

On the afternoon of the second day, a massive hailstorm pelted the Walkers. As a consequence, Jensen - who we otherwise do not know much of - completely lost his bearings, walking in circles before stumbling off the side of the road. Just like Percy, he received no warning although the soldiers, themselves not able to see anything, fired entire volleys in his direction to ensure they would hit him.

Answer: Olson

Olson had been mentally unstable throughout the walk and very withdrawn, and then suddenly made the futile attempt to scale a halftrack. He disarmed the first soldier, but did not use the weapon, rather tossing it into the crowd. He was then shot a total of at least eight times in what is the most gratuitously gory description of a killing in the book. In spite of his fatal wounds, he then turned back to the road and resumed walking for a few final steps before succumbing without being shot again.

Stebbins explained to the others that this cruel method of killing was meant as a deterrent against any resistance.

Answer: Scramm

Scramm was unique among the Walkers in that he was married. His wife was expecting a child, yet he did join the Walk in the hopes of securing a better future for his family. He was strong and the pre-race betting favorite, who would very much have been a contender if it hadn't been for catching a bad cold on the first day which, by late morning of the third day, had developed into full pneumonia.

When it got too bad, Scramm just sat down along with Mike, one of the Hopi brothers, and they awaited their fate after a last defiant gesture to the soldiers.

Answer: Barkovich

Barkovich was a rather disturbed boy who used taunts and psychological tricks to hasten the elimination of others from the Walk. He had been successful with Rank before and played at least a part in the elimination of others, but he also was the most hated among the whole group.

However, his mind games caught up with him and in what is almost described as a sort of seizure - he did not seem to have conscious command of his hands in the scene - he suddenly started to rip open his own throat with his bare hands.

Answer: Parker

None of the Walkers had actually seen exactly what happened, but early on the fourth day, Collie Parker was suddenly standing atop a halftrack, brandishing a rifle and looking down at a dead soldier he had shot. He called for the others to join in his rebellion but no one did.

He was shot in the back, just once, but enough to quickly fell him although he did manage to fire two more untargeted shots, one of which hit a spectator, before dying.

Answer: Fielder

The fifth and final day dawned with only nine Walkers remaining, and shortly after only seven cross into Massachusetts. Just after the state line, the road passed between two hills that seemingly endless cheering crowds used as grandstands. This sight was too much for the already frail mind of George Fielder, who suddenly broke into repeating "eat us up" over and over before sitting down to get shot.

Answer: Baker

Art Baker was the son of an undertaker and one of his fears was to have his body eaten by rats after he died. During the walk he fell and developed a massive nosebleed that would not stop. When he finally got too weak to walk - although he did outlast the seemingly healthier Hough and Milligan - he requested two things from Garraty and McVries: to get a lead-lined coffin and that they would not watch when he got shot.

They kept the latter promise, but we don't know of the first, nor do we know of the other promises, such as the winner setting up a fund for Scramm's family.

Answer: McVries

Peter McVries was Ray Garraty's best friend during the Walk and they had saved each other's lives multiple times over the days. Even though McVries was physically the strongest of the final four, he did, at some point, decide he had enough even though he had the win in front of his eyes.

He sat down and waited for the soldiers to shoot him - not resigned but at peace with himself. The race was down to just two - Garraty and the enigmatic Stebbins, who referred to himself as the rabbit, alluding to the uncatchable mechanical rabbit used in greyhound racing.

Answer: Stebbins

Stebbins was shown as the most consistent Walker from the very beginning. He rarely ever picked up any warnings and mostly kept to himself. Only near the very end does he open up a bit to the others, confiding that he was the illegitimate son of the Major, the dictator who rules over the dystopian future United States where this bloody entertainment takes place.

After only the last two are left, Garraty realizes he won't win and wants to step up to Stebbins to congratulate him before dying - but as soon as he reaches him, it is Stebbins who suddenly clutches at Garraty, as if frantically seeking for help and support, and then falls down dead.

The description would suggest that he had a massive heart attack or stroke, but the book never says anything about it.

Answer: Garraty

Even though Ray Garraty defeats all 99 other Walkers and wins, his fate remains unknown. After Stebbins dies, he does not realize his victory and instead tries to catch up to a dark figure he believes to be some other Walker in front of him. Even the Major laying a hand on his shoulder to congratulate him does not stop him - he rather actually finds some energy left to run.

This description somewhat echoes the fate of Regie Cotter, the only previous winner from Maine, who finished the Walk half blind and died a week later from a blood clot on his brain.

The story implies that a substantial portion of the winners never get to enjoy their prize because they die soon after the Walk. The book never answers the question whether Garraty survives his ordeal long enough to see his girlfriend Jan again or enjoy the prize he had come to win - every wish fulfilled for the rest of his natural life.