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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 replaced the forests outside Tull?

2. What does Brown use for a dinner table?

3. How long has the gunslinger been walking on foot?

4. What is Alice's opinion of the gunslinger?

5. Where does Sylvia Pittston live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the night sky as the gunslinger camps for the night.

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

3. Describe Allie's thoughts about the gunslinger after she hears him talking strangely to Nort.

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

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

6. Summarize the way Allie and the gunslinger spend their time for the four days they spend in Allie's room.

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

8. Explain what the gunslinger is thinking as he eats his breakfast.

9. Describe the gunslinger's guns.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Evaluate the relationship between the gunslinger and Jake.

2) How does the man in black's father affect the gunslinger's relationship with Jake?

3) How does the gunslinger feel about Jake at the end of the novel?

4) Give examples from the story of how they interact with one another.

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) As the gunslinger walks through the desert, a nursery rhyme plays through his mind in a maddening way.

2) Determine King's purpose in using this poem in the story.

3) What does the poetic imagery reveal about the gunslinger's life?

4) Analyze the message his mother was trying to give to Roland about the road his life will take.

5) Cite examples from the novel that prove the prophecies in the rhyme have come true in the gunslinger's life as an adult.

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