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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 gunslinger's reaction when men, women, and children come after him with clubs and knives?

2. Who is held hostage by Sheb as the gunslinger fires his guns?

3. What does the gunslinger do to Jake to get information from him?

4. Who sneaks a meal to Roland and Cuthbert when Cort tells them they can't have supper?

5. What happens as Kennerly looks at the gunslinger with a hate-filled grin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Soobie and Kennerly are doing when the gunslinger leaves them.

2. Summarize Brown's reaction when the gunslinger is finished telling the story about Tull.

3. Summarize what the gunslinger sees as he staggers in the desert.

4. Summarize the decision the gunslinger must make when Jake falls onto the edge of a pit, clutching on for his life.

5. Describe the appearance of Brown on the day the gunslinger leaves his home.

6. Describe the encounter the gunslinger has with Jake.

7. Describe Sylvia's prediction about what the man in black intends to do about the gunslinger.

8. Summarize why the gunslinger looks at Jake with sorrow.

9. Describe the events that take place as the gunslinger walks through the center of town.

10. Describe what Jake tells the gunslinger to look at in the mountains.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Analyze Stephen King's use of imagery to convey the tone of the novel.

2) How do the images of the weather and the desert add to this tone?

3) Justify the answers with examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

1) As the gunslinger walks through the desert, a nursery rhyme plays through his mind in a maddening way.

2) Determine King's purpose in using this poem in the story.

3) What does the poetic imagery reveal about the gunslinger's life?

4) Analyze the message his mother was trying to give to Roland about the road his life will take.

5) Cite examples from the novel that prove the prophecies in the rhyme have come true in the gunslinger's life as an adult.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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