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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 pleases the gunslinger about the fugitive he is following?

2. What does the gunslinger want to relate to Brown?

3. What replaced the forests outside Tull?

4. What does Kennerly tell Soobie to do when the gunslinger arrives?

5. What is the news that Brown gives the gunslinger when he awakens?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the place where the preacher woman lives.

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

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

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

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

9. Summarize the scene in the bar when Nort puts a hand on the gunslinger's shoulder.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Summarize how Stephen King uses local color and imagery to describe the desert and Tull.

2) Cite descriptive examples of the atmosphere, landscaping, the citizens, Sheb's Bar, the stable, and the main street.

3) Does the imagery King uses depict a clear and accurate picture of the town and the surrounding landscape?

Essay Topic 2

1) As the gunslinger walks through the desert, a nursery rhyme plays through his mind in a maddening way.

2) Determine King's purpose in using this poem in the story.

3) What does the poetic imagery reveal about the gunslinger's life?

4) Analyze the message his mother was trying to give to Roland about the road his life will take.

5) Cite examples from the novel that prove the prophecies in the rhyme have come true in the gunslinger's life as an adult.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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