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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. How does the man address the gunslinger after touching his shoulder?
(a) He chants at him.
(b) He uses High Speech.
(c) He uses sign language.
(d) He mumbles incoherently.

2. How have the gunslinger and Alice been spending the four days he has been in town?
(a) They ate, slept, made love and played the fiddle.
(b) They ate, talked and slept.
(c) They went for long walks and slept.
(d) They ate and slept

3. How long has it been since the gunslinger passed a town?
(a) Two days
(b) Six months
(c) Three weeks
(d) Three days

4. What song is playing as the gunslinger enters Tull?
(a) Help
(b) Hey Jude
(c) California Dreaming
(d) Eleanor Rigby

5. Who is the one character in the Bible that Sylvia Pittston fears?
(a) Shadrach
(b) Meshach
(c) Abednego
(d) The Interloper

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sylvia Pittston live?

2. What is Alice's response when the gunslinger asks her about the man in black?

3. How does the gunslinger react when the piano player charges at him and Alice?

4. What does Brown think will strangle everything eventually?

5. What does the gunslinger ask Alice for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first things that the gunslinger tells Brown about the town of Tull.

2. Describe Allie's thoughts about the gunslinger after she hears him talking strangely to Nort.

3. Summarize how the gunslinger begins to tell the story of Tull.

4. Summarize the way Allie and the gunslinger spend their time for the four days they spend in Allie's room.

5. Describe the place where the preacher woman lives.

6. Describe how Brown surprises the gunslinger.

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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