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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brown use for a dinner table?
(a) A wagon wheel
(b) A flat rock
(c) An old water bucket
(d) A blanket spread on the floor

2. How does Kennerly describe Soobie to the gunslinger?
(a) She has a devil inside her and she is wild.
(b) She is too smart for her own good.
(c) She is the prettiest girl in these parts.
(d) She is dimwitted.

3. What does the gunslinger think the burned out campfires he finds could be?
(a) The trail of ghosts
(b) Relics of the past
(c) Devil spoor
(d) A message

4. What does Nort chew on instead of eating?
(a) A cow hoof
(b) A piece of straw
(c) Old leather
(d) Devil grass

5. What pleases the gunslinger about the fugitive he is following?
(a) The fugitive is bleeding.
(b) The fugitive is leaving more clues.
(c) The fugitive is slowing down.
(d) The fugitive's essential humanity

6. At which levels of khef does thirst stop?
(a) Eighth or ninth
(b) Seventh or eighth
(c) Six or seventh
(d) Fifth or sixth

7. Where does Sylvia Pittston live?
(a) She lives in a shack behind the church.
(b) She lives in a cave outside of town.
(c) She lives in the basement of the bar.
(d) She lives in the hills.

8. What is Alice's response when the gunslinger asks her what is south of the desert?
(a) She answers that there is a village there.
(b) She tells him there is an ocean there.
(c) She answers that she doesn't know.
(d) She tells him that the crazies live there.

9. What does the fugitive do while in the town of Hull?
(a) Attacks a woman
(b) Heals an old man
(c) Robs the general store
(d) Kills the sheriff

10. What is the only feature that can be seen in the desert?
(a) A meteor crater
(b) A dried up water hole
(c) The haze of the mountains
(d) A dried river bed

11. How does the gunslinger eat his meal?
(a) Swallows without chewing
(b) Quickly and hungrily
(c) Picks at it
(d) Slowly and thoughtfully

12. 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 make love to her again.
(d) She asks him to stay.

13. What is the ultimatum Allie makes to the gunslinger for revealing the location of Pittston's home?
(a) He must never leave her.
(b) He must leave town immediately.
(c) He must make love to her.
(d) He must never speak of Sylvia again.

14. What happened to the gunslinger in the town of Tull?
(a) He was almost killed there.
(b) His horse was stolen.
(c) He was robbed by crazies.
(d) He was deathly ill.

15. Who is the gunslinger following across the desert?
(a) The black man
(b) The black woman
(c) The man in black
(d) The woman in black

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kennerly tell Soobie to do when the gunslinger arrives?

2. How long has it been since the gunslinger passed a town?

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

4. What is Allie's reason for not going to church?

5. How have the gunslinger and Alice been spending the four days he has been in town?

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