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

2. What is the last thing Allie asks the gunslinger?
(a) She asks him if he is leaving.
(b) She asks him if he is ever surprised.
(c) She asks him if he is a demon.
(d) She asks him if he will be back.

3. What does Sylvia wave in each hand as she runs toward the gunslinger screaming?
(a) She waves a kitchen knife in each hand.
(b) She waves a snake in each hand.
(c) She holds a wooden cross in each hand.
(d) She waves dead rats in each hand.

4. How does the gunslinger eat his breakfast?
(a) He picks at the food.
(b) He doesn't eat anything.
(c) Slowly, while making small talk
(d) Rapidly, without speaking

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in black do with the tarot cards?

2. What is involved in passing the gunslinger test?

3. What has been on the gunslinger's mind all day as he trudges through the desert?

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

5. What does the gunslinger ask the oracle as he lays on the stone altar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the decision the gunslinger must make when Jake falls onto the edge of a pit, clutching on for his life.

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

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

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

5. Describe the parting of Brown and the gunslinger.

6. Summarize why the gunslinger goes back to the circle of stones.

7. Summarize Brown's reaction when the gunslinger is finished telling the story about Tull.

8. Summarize what the gunslinger and the man in black talk about throughout the night and what is revealed when the conversation is over.

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

10. Describe the appearance of Brown on the day the gunslinger leaves his home.

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