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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 are the three things Brown believes are important?
2. What does Alice think about the gunslinger when he makes no comment when she is finished talking?
3. How long has the gunslinger been walking on foot?
4. What is the reaction of the customers in the honky-tonk when the gunslinger walks in?
5. Brown wakes the gunslinger after how many hours of sleep?
Short Essay Questions
1. Summarize Allie's explanation about Nort's death.
2. Describe the explanation Brown gives about his planted corn the last time it rained.
3. Explain why the gunslinger tells Allie he is leaving in the morning.
4. Explain what the gunslinger is thinking as he eats his breakfast.
5. Describe the situation when Sheb breaks into Allie's room.
6. Summarize how the gunslinger begins to tell the story of Tull.
7. Describe the preacher who gives a sermon at the church.
8. Describe the young dweller that the gunslinger encounters when he comes out of the foothills.
9. Describe what the gunslinger passes in the desert after he leaves the town three weeks before.
10. Summarize what becomes of the gunslinger's mule.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Summarize how Stephen King uses local color and imagery to describe the desert and Tull.
2) Cite descriptive examples of the atmosphere, landscaping, the citizens, Sheb's Bar, the stable, and the main street.
3) Does the imagery King uses depict a clear and accurate picture of the town and the surrounding landscape?
Essay Topic 2
Write an introduction to the novel discussing Stephen King's writing style, use of dialogue, irony, imagery, and point of view of the characters. How do these literary elements affect the story?
Essay Topic 3
1) Pinpoint the major conflicts in the novel.
2) Determine if these conflicts are internal or external and if they are between the characters themselves, personal conflicts, and conflicts with nature.
3) Give examples from the novel of these conflicts and if they are resolved by the end of the novel.
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