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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 is the ultimatum Allie makes to the gunslinger for revealing the location of Pittston's home?

2. What is Alice's opinion of the gunslinger?

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

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

5. What does the gunslinger consider might be the trap that the man in black left for him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Kennerly's daughters.

3. Describe how Brown surprises the gunslinger.

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

5. Summarize the preacher's comments about the Interloper.

6. Summarize what goes through the gunslinger's mind when Zoltan starts reciting the Lord's Prayer.

7. Summarize Allie's explanation about Nort's death.

8. Summarize what becomes of the gunslinger's mule.

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

10. Explain what the gunslinger is contemplating as he gets water from Brown's well.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Analyze Sylvia Pittston's final acts in the story and if she has any alternatives to the shootout in Tull.

2) Was her character completely evil in the end?

3) Justify the answer with examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The gunslinger is one of the main constants throughout the novel. He is mentioned in all three parts of the story and everyone's life seems to revolve around him.

1) Explain how the gunslinger and the characters intertwine as the book progresses.

2) What relationship does he have with Brown, Allie, the man in black, Jake, Kennerly, and Sylvia Pittston.

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