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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. Where does the gunslinger see the man in black?

2. How long have Jake and the gunslinger been in the foothills?

3. What does the gunslinger ask the oracle as he lays on the stone altar?

4. How does the gunslinger eat his breakfast?

5. What happens as Kennerly looks at the gunslinger with a hate-filled grin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the final conversation that Allie and the gunslinger have together.

2. Describe what Roland and Cuthbert overhear as they eat their dessert and how they react.

3. Analyze why the gunslinger asks Brown who he really is.

4. Summarize Brown's reaction when the gunslinger is finished telling the story about Tull.

5. Describe the parting of Brown and the gunslinger.

6. Summarize the outcome of the gunslinger's shoot-out with the townspeople of Tull.

7. Describe where the gunslinger finds Jake when he is missing from the campsite.

8. Summarize Sylvia Pittston's encounter with the man in black.

9. Summarize the encounter the gunslinger has with Kennerly and Soobie.

10. Describe Sylvia's prediction about what the man in black intends to do about the gunslinger.

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) 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.

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