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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 dreaming about when he is startled from his sleep?
(a) He dreams about Susan being burned alive.
(b) He dreams about finding Jake.
(c) He dreams about Cort teaching him to shoot.
(d) He dreams about Cuthbert's death.

2. How does Allie make love to the gunslinger on the night she tells him about Sylvia?
(a) Tenderly
(b) Violently
(c) Hatefully
(d) Desperately

3. What does Brown ask the gunslinger when he is done telling his story about Tull?
(a) Brown asks him if he feels bad.
(b) Brown asks him if he asked God's forgiveness.
(c) Brown asks him if he will return to Tull.
(d) Brown asks him if he feels better.

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

5. Where does the gunslinger think all quests end?
(a) They end with compromise.
(b) They end upon the killing ground.
(c) They end in love.
(d) They end with pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gunslinger realize about Jake?

2. Who does the gunslinger see sitting in the shadows?

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

4. As the gunslinger thinks about the past, what are Roland and Cuthbert learning to do?

5. What choice does the gunslinger have to make when he and Jake finally confront the man in black?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the final conversation that Allie and the gunslinger have together.

2. Describe what Jake tells the gunslinger to look at in the mountains.

3. Describe Allie's demeanor on the morning of the gunslinger's last day in Tull.

4. Summarize the encounter the gunslinger has with Kennerly and Soobie.

5. Describe Sylvia's prediction about what the man in black intends to do about the gunslinger.

6. Summarize the outcome of the gunslinger's shoot-out with the townspeople of Tull.

7. Describe the killing ground where the man in black leads the gunslinger.

8. Analyze why the gunslinger asks Brown who he really is.

9. Describe the encounter the gunslinger has with Jake.

10. Describe the events that take place as the gunslinger walks through the center of town.

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