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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reaction of the gunslinger after the assault by Soobie?
(a) He asks for his mule.
(b) He chokes Kennerly.
(c) He punches Kennerly.
(d) He slaps Soobie.

2. What harm does Soobie's weapon have on the gunslinger?
(a) It grazes his elbow only.
(b) It misses him completely.
(c) It grazes his thigh.
(d) It grazes the side of his head.

3. How much time passes in one night as the gunslinger and the man in black talk?
(a) One month
(b) Ten days
(c) Ten years
(d) Two days

4. What surprises the gunslinger about the man in black?
(a) How tall he is
(b) How young he is
(c) How small he is
(d) How old he is

5. What does the gunslinger realize when he awakens to an ugly, bruised purple sky?
(a) It is his last day in Tull.
(b) He will never leave Tull.
(c) He is afraid of the townspeople.
(d) He is afraid of Allie.

6. What does the desert bake out of the gunslinger?
(a) Thoughts of a happy life
(b) Thoughts of friendship
(c) Thoughts of guilt
(d) Thoughts of love

7. What is Brown planning to do with the gunslinger's mule?
(a) Burn it
(b) Bury it
(c) Use it to carry his supplies
(d) Eat it

8. What conversation do Roland and Cuthbert overhear as they are eating dessert?
(a) They hear Cort and Hax plan to kill the people of Farson.
(b) They hear Hax and a guard plan to free a prisoner from the castle.
(c) They hear Hax and a guard plan to kill the people of Farson.
(d) They hear Cort plan to kill the people of Farson.

9. What question does the gunslinger ask the man in black?
(a) He asks how he can be as powerful as the man in black.
(b) He asks how long he has been a minion of the Tower.
(c) He asks who the man in black's master is.
(d) He asks how he can reach the next level.

10. What question does the gunslinger ask Brown?
(a) He asks Brown who he really is.
(b) He asks Brown if he can stay awhile.
(c) He asks Brown if he is a spirit.
(d) He asks Brown if he wants to kill him.

11. How long have Jake and the gunslinger been in the foothills?
(a) Three days
(b) Two days
(c) One week
(d) Two weeks

12. What is the gunslinger's reaction when men, women, and children come after him with clubs and knives?
(a) He takes shelter in the barn.
(b) He tries to talk sense into them.
(c) He opens fire.
(d) He gives them a warning.

13. What happens as Kennerly looks at the gunslinger with a hate-filled grin?
(a) Soobie tries to shoot the gunslinger.
(b) Soobie swings a piece of firewood at the gunslinger.
(c) Soobie swings an axe at the gunslinger.
(d) Soobie tries to stab the gunslinger.

14. What is the gunslinger's reply when Brown asks him if he is desperate?
(a) Yes, for the first time.
(b) I'll never be desperate.
(c) I'm past desperate.
(d) Not yet

15. As the gunslinger thinks about the past, what are Roland and Cuthbert learning to do?
(a) Train Cort's hawk, David
(b) How to ride bareback
(c) Reload quickly
(d) Shoot

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the gunslinger view Brown on the morning he is leaving Brown's home?

2. What does the gunslinger see in his vision?

3. What are Soobie and Kennerly doing as the gunslinger rides away?

4. What does the gunslinger ask the oracle as he lays on the stone altar?

5. Who calls Roland into his mother's room in the gunslinger's memories of coming of age?

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