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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 Alice say about Nort?

2. What does the gunslinger offer to pay Brown for?

3. How does the gunslinger react when the piano player charges at him and Alice?

4. What impression does the gunslinger have about Zoltan's comment?

5. What possibility can't the gunslinger bear to think about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Brown surprises the gunslinger.

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

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

4. Describe the gunslinger's guns.

5. Describe the situation when Sheb breaks into Allie's room.

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

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

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

9. Summarize how the gunslinger begins to tell the story of Tull.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) As the reader follows the gunslinger through his solitary trek across the desert, what kind of person is he revealed to be?

2) Analyze the character traits he reveals when he encounters Brown and Zoltan, Jake, and Allie.

3) Summarize deeper insights into the gunslinger's human nature in each of these relationships.

Essay Topic 2

1) Analyze the resolution of the story as it relates to the gunslinger, Jake, and the man in black.

2) Explain the metamorphosis each of them experiences in the final chapters.

Essay Topic 3

1) Several times in the novel, it is mentioned that the world moved on.

2) Summarize what meaning this statement has for the gunslinger, the man in black, Jake, and the townspeople of Tull.

3) Cite examples from the novel that explain how the world moved on for each of them.

4) In the case of Jake, describe how two worlds have moved on for him.

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