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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. Who is the first person the gunslinger meets when he comes down the foothills?

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

3. What does the gunslinger carry below his water bags?

4. What does Brown think will strangle everything eventually?

5. Brown wakes the gunslinger after how many hours of sleep?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Summarize Allie's explanation about Nort's death.

8. Summarize the discussion Brown and the gunslinger have after the blessing.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

1) Discuss how the gunslinger's attitude toward life changes from the beginning of the book to the end.

2) How does his attitude change toward the man in black? How does his attitude change about himself?

3) What are the differences in his attitude toward the meaning of life differ from the beginning to the end of the story?

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze the image of the altar and the stone circle in which Jake is mesmerized and the gunslinger receives his prophecy.

2) What does the stone circle symbolize?

3) What images does King use to describe the vision he receives and the oracle's message to him?

4) Cite examples of how the oracles prophecy relates to the gunslinger in the future.

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