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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the gunslinger want to relate to Brown?
(a) Who he is chasing through the desert
(b) How he lost his family
(c) Who he really is
(d) What happened to him in Tull

2. How does the man address the gunslinger after touching his shoulder?
(a) He chants at him.
(b) He uses sign language.
(c) He uses High Speech.
(d) He mumbles incoherently.

3. What does the gunslinger decide to do with his mule?
(a) He decides to trade it for a horse.
(b) He gives it to Alice.
(c) Make arrangements for it to be taken care of it while he is in Tull.
(d) He decides to eat it.

4. What is in Alice's voice when she asks the gunslinger where he is going?
(a) Relief
(b) Excitement
(c) Fear
(d) Trepidation

5. How does the gunslinger eat his meal?
(a) Quickly and hungrily
(b) Swallows without chewing
(c) Picks at it
(d) Slowly and thoughtfully

6. What happened to the real minister of Tull?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He lost his faith.
(c) He moved out.
(d) He died.

7. What does the gunslinger pass to Alice while in her room?
(a) A gold nugget
(b) A piece of jerky
(c) A letter
(d) A cigarette

8. What is the only feature that can be seen in the desert?
(a) A dried river bed
(b) A meteor crater
(c) The haze of the mountains
(d) A dried up water hole

9. What possibility can't the gunslinger bear to think about?
(a) Starving to death
(b) His death
(c) The loss of his son
(d) His own madness

10. How have the gunslinger and Alice been spending the four days he has been in town?
(a) They ate, talked and slept.
(b) They ate, slept, made love and played the fiddle.
(c) They ate and slept
(d) They went for long walks and slept.

11. What does the gunslinger think the burned out campfires he finds could be?
(a) Relics of the past
(b) The trail of ghosts
(c) A message
(d) Devil spoor

12. What is the only thing in the desert to burn for a campfire?
(a) Devil grass
(b) Dried cactus
(c) Snake skins
(d) Tumbleweed

13. What pleases the gunslinger about the fugitive he is following?
(a) The fugitive is slowing down.
(b) The fugitive's essential humanity
(c) The fugitive is bleeding.
(d) The fugitive is leaving more clues.

14. What does Allie tell the gunslinger about Sylvia Pittston?
(a) She won't see him.
(b) She will kill him.
(c) She will put a demon in him.
(d) She will possess him.

15. Who inhabits the sod dwellings that the gunslinger passes?
(a) Women and children
(b) Wild beasts
(c) Highwaymen
(d) Lepers and madmen

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nort believe the man in black could have done for him?

2. What replaced the forests outside Tull?

3. Where does the light come from in Brown's hut?

4. What happens to Nort when he enters the bar when being followed by the children and dogs?

5. Why was the bar closed on the night after the piano player attacked the gunslinger?

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