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

2. Who asks the gunslinger if the fugitive he is following is a sorcerer?
(a) The old man
(b) Brown
(c) The woman
(d) The child

3. What does the gunslinger believe the man in black left for him in Tull?
(a) A note
(b) A gun
(c) A trap
(d) Saddlebags

4. What does Alice think about the man in black as he speaks to her about Nort?
(a) Fear
(b) Love
(c) Fascination
(d) Loathing

5. Who is the first person the gunslinger meets when he comes down the foothills?
(a) A young woman and child
(b) An insane old man
(c) An orphaned child
(d) A young man with strawberry hair

6. What is Alice's response when the gunslinger asks her about the man in black?
(a) She says, "Pay me for it."
(b) She says, "You have to have it..."
(c) She says, "He told me not to tell."
(d) She says, "I don't know much."

7. How long has it been since the gunslinger passed a town?
(a) Three weeks
(b) Six months
(c) Two days
(d) Three days

8. What does Brown consider his life to be?
(a) A satisfying life
(b) A life of burdens
(c) Life after death
(d) A wholesome life

9. Where did Sylvia come from when she arrived in town?
(a) She came from the desert.
(b) She came from the forest.
(c) She came from the crazies.
(d) She came from the mountains.

10. What is the news that Brown gives the gunslinger when he awakens?
(a) The fugitive is back.
(b) A stranger came looking for him.
(c) His mule was stolen.
(d) His mule is dead.

11. What does Alice decide she can do in a day or two?
(a) Run away from Tull
(b) Think
(c) Kill herself
(d) Kill the gunslinger

12. Where does the light come from in Brown's hut?
(a) A lantern above the table
(b) A warm fire in the hearth
(c) The glow of the moon
(d) The glare of banked embers

13. Describe Kennerly.
(a) No teeth and unpleasant
(b) Buck teeth and ugly
(c) Happy and pleasant
(d) Missing front tooth and ghostly pale

14. What does the gunslinger consider might be the trap that the man in black left for him?
(a) His growing laziness
(b) His yearning for a home
(c) His growing affection for Alice
(d) His constant anxiety

15. What is the gunslinger thinking as he turns away from Kennerly?
(a) He wishes Brown was with him.
(b) He can't wait to get out of Tull.
(c) He wants to meet Kennerly's daughter.
(d) It's not played out in this town yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gunslinger see in the eyes of the man who touches his shoulder?

2. What pleases the gunslinger about the fugitive he is following?

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

4. How does Brown surprise the gunslinger when they sit down to eat?

5. What does the fugitive do while in the town of Hull?

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