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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 the gunslinger want to relate to Brown?

2. What does the fugitive do while in the town of Hull?

3. What does the person the gunslinger meets offer him to eat?

4. Why does Sheb attack the gunslinger?

5. What does Nort chew on instead of eating?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what Allie tells the gunslinger about the desert.

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

4. Summarize what goes through the gunslinger's mind when Zoltan starts reciting the Lord's Prayer.

5. Describe the first things that the gunslinger tells Brown about the town of Tull.

6. Summarize the description Kennerly gives the gunslinger about what is beyond the desert.

7. Describe Kennerly's daughters.

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

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

10. Describe what the gunslinger passes in the desert after he leaves the town three weeks before.

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

1) Analyze Stephen King's use of imagery to convey the tone of the novel.

2) How do the images of the weather and the desert add to this tone?

3) Justify the answers with examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze the role of the gunslinger as the protagonist in the novel and the role of the man in black as the antagonist.

2) Explain the qualities each of the two characters has that places them into these roles.

3) In what way does the man in black oppose the gunslinger?

4) Justify the role of each man with examples from the novel.

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