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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 does the gunslinger ask the oracle as he lays on the stone altar?
(a) He asks for help.
(b) He asks for strength.
(c) He asks for courage.
(d) He asks for a prophecy.

2. What do Roland and Cuthbert do after they hear the secret conversation?
(a) Tell the Good Man.
(b) Tell the priest.
(c) Tell their mothers.
(d) Tell their fathers.

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 warning does Kennerly give to the gunslinger?
(a) Alice is planning to kill him.
(b) Sylvia is planning to kill him.
(c) The wind from the storm can kill him.
(d) There is a trap set for him.

5. What hangs on Sylvia Pittston's door?
(a) A rabbit's foot
(b) A dead cat
(c) A large wooden cross
(d) The Lord's Prayer

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the gunslinger think all quests end?

2. What does the gunslinger tell Jake about the Tower?

3. What does the gunslinger realize about Jake?

4. What do the boys ask their fathers about the hanging in the town?

5. What is the crow compared to as it sits on the low roof?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize why the gunslinger looks at Jake with sorrow.

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

3. Summarize Sylvia Pittston's encounter with the man in black.

4. Describe what Roland and Cuthbert overhear as they eat their dessert and how they react.

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

6. Describe where the gunslinger finds Jake when he is missing from the campsite.

7. Describe what Soobie and Kennerly are doing when the gunslinger leaves them.

8. Summarize what the gunslinger sees as he staggers in the desert.

9. Summarize the memories the gunslinger has of days learning with Cort.

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

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