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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who calls Roland into his mother's room in the gunslinger's memories of coming of age?
(a) Marten
(b) Zoltan
(c) Cort
(d) Cuthbert

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

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

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

5. What is the angry mob screaming at the gunslinger?
(a) They scream, "The accursed! Bring him down!"
(b) They scream, "You'll never catch him."
(c) They scream, "Don't ever come back."
(d) They scream, "Get out of our town."

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

7. Where does the gunslinger see the man in black?
(a) Climbing up the slopes, far in the distance
(b) Crawling through the desert
(c) Riding a horse close by
(d) Tormenting his dreams

8. What has been on the gunslinger's mind all day as he trudges through the desert?
(a) A nursery rhyme his mother used to sing to him
(b) The people he killed in Tull
(c) The way Allie died
(d) The man in black

9. Where does Brown think the man in black is?
(a) Very close
(b) In the desert
(c) In the mountains
(d) Past the desert

10. What becomes of the gunslinger after he passes out in the sand?
(a) Jake kicks him in the stomach and takes his guns.
(b) Jake lays him in a hay bed and cools his face with water.
(c) Jake sits beside him, not knowing what to do.
(d) Jake throws him into a newly dug grave.

11. What does the gunslinger see in the desert as he becomes more delirious?
(a) A wooded grove
(b) An abandoned way station
(c) An apple tree
(d) A lake

12. How does the gunslinger get into Sylvia's residence?
(a) Sylvia opens the door for him.
(b) He climbs through a window.
(c) He kicks down the door.
(d) He crawls through a hole under the door.

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

14. What is the scene as the gunslinger dreams?
(a) The fire is blazing.
(b) Rain is beginning to fall.
(c) The fire is out and the stars are pale.
(d) The stars and moon are shining brightly.

15. What does the gunslinger give to Jake for protection?
(a) One of his guns
(b) A knife
(c) A jawbone
(d) A slingshot

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the gunslinger view the boy in the light of the fire?

2. Why does Sylvia say that making love to her will be the death of the gunslinger?

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

4. Where does the man in black lead the gunslinger?

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

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