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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. How does Brown surprise the gunslinger when they sit down to eat?

2. Describe Kennerly.

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

4. Who raps on the door halfway through the meal?

5. What does the gunslinger decide to do with his mule?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Allie's room where she and the gunslinger make love.

2. Describe the gunslinger's guns.

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

4. Summarize what becomes of the gunslinger's mule.

5. Explain what the gunslinger is contemplating as he gets water from Brown's well.

6. Summarize how the man in black brings Nort back to life.

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

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

9. Describe the young dweller that the gunslinger encounters when he comes out of the foothills.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

The gunslinger is one of the main constants throughout the novel. He is mentioned in all three parts of the story and everyone's life seems to revolve around him.

1) Explain how the gunslinger and the characters intertwine as the book progresses.

2) What relationship does he have with Brown, Allie, the man in black, Jake, Kennerly, and Sylvia Pittston.

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