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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What strange thought crosses the gunslinger's mind about Brown?
(a) Brown could be a spirit.
(b) Brown could be in his imagination.
(c) Brown could be plotting to murder him.
(d) Brown could be the man in black.

2. What does Alice think about the man in black as he speaks to her about Nort?
(a) Fear
(b) Loathing
(c) Love
(d) Fascination

3. What does Kennerly tell Soobie to do when the gunslinger arrives?
(a) Make some food.
(b) Get the gunslinger a drink.
(c) Get the mule.
(d) Get inside.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alice's reaction to the man in black's actions?

2. What does Nort believe the man in black could have done for him?

3. What does the gunslinger want to relate to Brown?

4. What does the fugitive do while in the town of Hull?

5. What is the only thing in the desert to burn for a campfire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the desert in which the gunslinger is traveling.

2. Describe the landscape as the gunslinger arrives in Tull.

3. Describe the man in black's arrival in the town of Tull.

4. Summarize what goes through the gunslinger's mind when Zoltan starts reciting the Lord's Prayer.

5. Summarize what becomes of the gunslinger's mule.

6. Summarize how the man in black brings Nort back to life.

7. Explain why the gunslinger tells Allie he is leaving in the morning.

8. Summarize the information Allie gives the gunslinger about the preacher woman.

9. Describe Kennerly's daughters.

10. Summarize Allie's explanation about Nort's death.

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