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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 Section 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Brown's description of growing corn?
(a) He says that it takes twelve months to grow.
(b) He says that he could hear it growing.
(c) He says that it doesn't grow anymore.
(d) He says that it rots on the vine.

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

3. What does Alice ask the gunslinger to do for her?
(a) She asks him to give her more money.
(b) She asks him to kill her.
(c) She asks him to stay.
(d) She asks him to make love to her again.

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

5. How does the man in black arrive into town?
(a) He rides a mule into town.
(b) He rides in on a horse.
(c) He drives a rickety rig with a tarp tied across the back.
(d) He walks into town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gunslinger want to relate to Brown?

2. What does Brown give the gunslinger to eat?

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

4. How long has the gunslinger been following the fugitive?

5. Who inhabits the sod dwellings that the gunslinger passes?

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