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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zoltan say as he sits in the corner?

2. Who inhabits the sod dwellings that the gunslinger passes?

3. What does the man in black do to Nort who lies across the tables?

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

5. How many daughters does Kennerly have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the preacher who gives a sermon at the church.

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

4. Describe the explanation Brown gives about his planted corn the last time it rained.

5. Describe how Brown surprises the gunslinger.

6. Summarize the information Allie gives the gunslinger about the preacher woman.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Evaluate the elements of cause and effect in this story using examples from the novel.

2) Choose three events from the story which cause the gunslinger's life to undergo a change.

3) How does he react to the events and their effects?

4) How does he grow emotionally in his own life and in his attitude toward the people in his life because of these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Brown is a mystery to the gunslinger.

1) In what way does Brown help the gunslinger on his journey?

2) In what respect has Brown led the gunslinger to a new awareness about his own human nature and man's spiritual nature?

3) Explain how Brown is wise in the ways of the flesh and the spirit. Give examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

1) Several times in the novel, it is mentioned that the world moved on.

2) Summarize what meaning this statement has for the gunslinger, the man in black, Jake, and the townspeople of Tull.

3) Cite examples from the novel that explain how the world moved on for each of them.

4) In the case of Jake, describe how two worlds have moved on for him.

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