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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three things Brown believes are important?
(a) Food, water, health
(b) Rain, friendship, food
(c) Rain, health, expansion of the spirit
(d) Food, water, friendship

2. What is the gunslinger thinking as he turns away from Kennerly?
(a) He wishes Brown was with him.
(b) He can't wait to get out of Tull.
(c) He wants to meet Kennerly's daughter.
(d) It's not played out in this town yet.

3. At which levels of khef does thirst stop?
(a) Fifth or sixth
(b) Six or seventh
(c) Eighth or ninth
(d) Seventh or eighth

4. What does the gunslinger ask Alice for?
(a) Extra water
(b) Food to take with him
(c) A map of the south
(d) An extra blanket

5. Where does the light come from in Brown's hut?
(a) A warm fire in the hearth
(b) The glow of the moon
(c) A lantern above the table
(d) The glare of banked embers

6. What does the gunslinger want to relate to Brown?
(a) Who he is chasing through the desert
(b) Who he really is
(c) What happened to him in Tull
(d) How he lost his family

7. Brown wakes the gunslinger after how many hours of sleep?
(a) Five
(b) Fourteen
(c) Twenty-four
(d) Twelve

8. What does the gunslinger believe the man in black left for him in Tull?
(a) A note
(b) A trap
(c) A gun
(d) Saddlebags

9. Who raps on the door halfway through the meal?
(a) A crazy
(b) A rotter
(c) The man in black
(d) Zoltan

10. What does the gunslinger carry below his water bags?
(a) Bowie knife
(b) Bed roll
(c) Guns
(d) Coffee pot

11. What does the fugitive do while in the town of Hull?
(a) Robs the general store
(b) Attacks a woman
(c) Kills the sheriff
(d) Heals an old man

12. What does Kennerly tell Soobie to do when the gunslinger arrives?
(a) Get inside.
(b) Get the mule.
(c) Get the gunslinger a drink.
(d) Make some food.

13. What type of surface does the desert have?
(a) Hardpan
(b) Pebbles
(c) Sandy
(d) Large stones

14. What possibility can't the gunslinger bear to think about?
(a) His death
(b) Starving to death
(c) His own madness
(d) The loss of his son

15. What happened to the real minister of Tull?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He moved out.
(c) He died.
(d) He lost his faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gunslinger thinking as he eats the grits Alice made for him?

2. Who does Pittston say will lead men into the flaming bowels of perdition?

3. What does Alice decide she can do in a day or two?

4. What is the reaction of the customers in the honky-tonk when the gunslinger walks in?

5. What was the thick crust of alkali in the desert at one time?

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