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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. What does the man in black do to Nort who lies across the tables?

2. What is the only thing in the desert to burn for a campfire?

3. What does Alice tell the gunslinger about Nort's eyes?

4. What does Brown think will strangle everything eventually?

5. What is the news that Brown gives the gunslinger when he awakens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why the gunslinger tells Allie he is leaving in the morning.

2. Summarize how the gunslinger begins to tell the story of Tull.

3. Summarize the way Allie and the gunslinger spend their time for the four days they spend in Allie's room.

4. Describe what Allie tells the gunslinger about the desert.

5. Describe the desert in which the gunslinger is traveling.

6. Describe Allie's thoughts about the gunslinger after she hears him talking strangely to Nort.

7. Describe what the gunslinger passes in the desert after he leaves the town three weeks before.

8. Summarize the description Kennerly gives the gunslinger about what is beyond the desert.

9. Describe the young dweller that the gunslinger encounters when he comes out of the foothills.

10. Describe the man in black's arrival in the town of Tull.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Discuss how the gunslinger's attitude toward life changes from the beginning of the book to the end.

2) How does his attitude change toward the man in black? How does his attitude change about himself?

3) What are the differences in his attitude toward the meaning of life differ from the beginning to the end of the story?

Essay Topic 2

1) Choose several episodes from the novel that reveal important facets of the man in black's character.

2) Explain how these episodes are revealing.

3) Describe what motivates him and what his final goal is.

Essay Topic 3

1) As the reader follows the gunslinger through his solitary trek across the desert, what kind of person is he revealed to be?

2) Analyze the character traits he reveals when he encounters Brown and Zoltan, Jake, and Allie.

3) Summarize deeper insights into the gunslinger's human nature in each of these relationships.

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