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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the bar closed on the night after the piano player attacked the gunslinger?
(a) There was a riot in the street.
(b) There was no piano player.
(c) It was the Sabbath.
(d) No one in town would come to the bar.

2. How does the gunslinger react to Brown's reason for giving an apology?
(a) He clenches his fist in anger.
(b) He grabs Brown by the shirt.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He says that it's okay.

3. What does the gunslinger accuse Brown of doing to him?
(a) Lying to him
(b) Doping him
(c) Robbing him
(d) Defying him

4. What does Brown think will strangle everything eventually?
(a) Madness
(b) The evil spirits
(c) Disease
(d) The desert

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

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

7. What does Alice say about Nort?
(a) He is dead and was touched by God.
(b) He was a lawyer once.
(c) He is an old man.
(d) He is a rotter.

8. What does Alice think about as she is on the edge of sleep?
(a) Nort's addiction to devil grass
(b) Making love with the man in black
(c) The strange talk Nort uses with the gunslinger.
(d) Making love to the gunslinger

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

10. Who does Pittston say will lead men into the flaming bowels of perdition?
(a) The Antichrist
(b) Shadrach
(c) Star Wormword
(d) King Ahaz

11. What does the gunslinger believe the man in black left for him in Tull?
(a) Saddlebags
(b) A note
(c) A gun
(d) A trap

12. What is in Alice's voice when she asks the gunslinger where he is going?
(a) Fear
(b) Trepidation
(c) Relief
(d) Excitement

13. What does the gunslinger think Brown will do after eating the meal?
(a) Ask questions
(b) Go to bed
(c) Kill him
(d) Attack him

14. What is Allie's reason for not going to church?
(a) She doesn't believe in God.
(b) The preacher woman has a poison religion.
(c) She gave up on her faith.
(d) The preacher is lecherous.

15. How does the gunslinger react when the piano player charges at him and Alice?
(a) He grabs the piano player's wrists, breaking them both.
(b) He knocks the piano player onto the floor.
(c) He shoots the piano player.
(d) He grabs the piano player around the throat

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Brown's hut door below ground level?

2. How long has the gunslinger been walking on foot?

3. At which levels of khef does thirst stop?

4. What does the gunslinger refuse to do after the attack by Sheb?

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

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