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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disturbs Marten and Roland's mother about his comment that his mother has not dismissed him?
(a) Roland insults his mother.
(b) Roland talks to Marten in High Speech.
(c) Roland insults his father.
(d) Roland threatens Marten.

2. What does the man in black do with the tarot cards?
(a) Throws them into the air
(b) Tosses them into the fire
(c) Lays them out in front of the gunslinger
(d) Tells the gunslinger's future

3. What is the gunslinger dreaming about when he is startled from his sleep?
(a) He dreams about finding Jake.
(b) He dreams about Cort teaching him to shoot.
(c) He dreams about Cuthbert's death.
(d) He dreams about Susan being burned alive.

4. 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 Cort plan to kill the people of Farson.
(c) They hear Hax and a guard plan to kill the people of Farson.
(d) They hear Hax and a guard plan to free a prisoner from the castle.

5. What is the gunslinger able to do in spite of being stabbed several times?
(a) Reload his guns
(b) Drag himself away from the mob
(c) Hop onto his horse
(d) Run for shelter

6. What is the gunslinger's dream?
(a) A frightening dream
(b) An arid dream
(c) An eerie dream
(d) A thirsty dream

7. How does the gunslinger eat his breakfast?
(a) Slowly, while making small talk
(b) Rapidly, without speaking
(c) He doesn't eat anything.
(d) He picks at the food.

8. What is the crow compared to as it sits on the low roof?
(a) An evil spirit
(b) A demon
(c) The embodiment of sin
(d) A gargoyle

9. Where does the gunslinger think all quests end?
(a) They end in love.
(b) They end with compromise.
(c) They end upon the killing ground.
(d) They end with pain.

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

11. Who does the gunslinger see sitting in the shadows?
(a) Brown
(b) A small boy
(c) Zoltan
(d) The man in black

12. What does the gunslinger see in his vision?
(a) Something of cosmic importance
(b) His own death
(c) The end of the universe
(d) The death of the man in black

13. What is the gunslinger carrying as he walks away from Brown?
(a) Guns and a rope
(b) Food and water
(c) Guns and knives
(d) Guns and water

14. What do the boys ask their fathers about the hanging in the town?
(a) They ask that they not be made to watch.
(b) They ask if they can watch.
(c) They ask if they can talk to the prisoner before the hanging.
(d) They ask if they can offer prayers before the hanging.

15. What is the last thing Allie asks the gunslinger?
(a) She asks him if he is leaving.
(b) She asks him if he will be back.
(c) She asks him if he is a demon.
(d) She asks him if he is ever surprised.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises the gunslinger about the man in black?

2. What does Sylvia say is beyond the desert when the gunslinger grabs her?

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

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

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

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