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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 is Alice's response when the gunslinger asks her what is south of the desert?
(a) She answers that there is a village there.
(b) She answers that she doesn't know.
(c) She tells him that the crazies live there.
(d) She tells him there is an ocean there.

2. What does Nort chew on instead of eating?
(a) Old leather
(b) Devil grass
(c) A cow hoof
(d) A piece of straw

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

4. What does Brown think will strangle everything eventually?
(a) Disease
(b) Madness
(c) The evil spirits
(d) The desert

5. What does Allie tell the gunslinger about Sylvia Pittston?
(a) She won't see him.
(b) She will put a demon in him.
(c) She will possess him.
(d) She will kill him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in Alice's voice when she asks the gunslinger where he is going?

2. What pleases the gunslinger about the fugitive he is following?

3. What does Sheb have in his hand when he breaks into Alice's bedroom?

4. What does Kennerly say that he heard is beyond the desert?

5. Who does Pittston say will lead men into the flaming bowels of perdition?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the discussion Brown and the gunslinger have after the blessing.

2. Describe the scene when Brown wakes up the gunslinger after five hours of rest.

3. Describe what the gunslinger passes in the desert after he leaves the town three weeks before.

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

5. Describe what the gunslinger finds when he goes into Brown's dwelling.

6. Describe what Allie tells the gunslinger about the desert.

7. Describe the gunslinger's guns.

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

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

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

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