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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 lead out of the foothills?

2. What strange thought crosses the gunslinger's mind about Brown?

3. What is the only thing in the desert to burn for a campfire?

4. How does Brown prepare the meal?

5. What happened to the gunslinger in the town of Tull?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the gunslinger's guns.

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

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

9. Describe the scene when Brown wakes up the gunslinger after five hours of rest.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

1) Choose several episodes from the novel that reveal important facets of the man in black's character.

2) Explain how these episodes are revealing.

3) Describe what motivates him and what his final goal is.

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