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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 the gunslinger thinking as he eats the grits Alice made for him?
(a) He should backtrack.
(b) He should go.
(c) He never should have stopped here.
(d) He should stay a few more days.

2. What level of khef is the gunslinger?
(a) Fourth
(b) Eighth
(c) Fifth
(d) Seventh

3. What is the only thing in the desert to burn for a campfire?
(a) Devil grass
(b) Snake skins
(c) Tumbleweed
(d) Dried cactus

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

5. What does Kennerly say that he heard is beyond the desert?
(a) Green fields and wild animals
(b) A rainforest
(c) Demons, monsters, oceans, and mountains
(d) Cities

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brown surprise the gunslinger when they sit down to eat?

2. Where did Sylvia come from when she arrived in town?

3. What does the gunslinger offer to pay Brown for?

4. What happened to the gunslinger in the town of Tull?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Summarize the preacher's comments about the Interloper.

3. Describe the young dweller that the gunslinger encounters when he comes out of the foothills.

4. Describe the gunslinger's guns.

5. Explain what the gunslinger is thinking as he eats his breakfast.

6. Describe Allie's room where she and the gunslinger make love.

7. Explain what the gunslinger is contemplating as he gets water from Brown's well.

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

9. Describe the situation when Sheb breaks into Allie's room.

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

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