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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the gunslinger following across the desert?
(a) The woman in black
(b) The man in black
(c) The black woman
(d) The black man

2. What does Brown think will strangle everything eventually?
(a) Madness
(b) The evil spirits
(c) The desert
(d) Disease

3. What is Alice's reaction to the man in black's actions?
(a) She cries, collapsing on the floor.
(b) She panics and locks herself in an upstairs room.
(c) She runs out the door and down the street.
(d) She laughs and joins him.

4. What does Alice tell the gunslinger about Nort's eyes?
(a) His eyes were dull and lifeless.
(b) She could see orange coals in his eyes.
(c) She could see the lights of hell in his eyes.
(d) His eyes were white with blindness.

5. What does Alice decide she can do in a day or two?
(a) Kill herself
(b) Kill the gunslinger
(c) Think
(d) Run away from Tull

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in black do to Nort who lies across the tables?

2. What does Kennerly say that he heard is beyond the desert?

3. What does the gunslinger refuse to do after the attack by Sheb?

4. How does the man address the gunslinger after touching his shoulder?

5. Where did Sylvia come from when she arrived in town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the first things that the gunslinger tells Brown about the town of Tull.

3. Describe the landscape as the gunslinger arrives in Tull.

4. Describe Allie's thoughts about the gunslinger after she hears him talking strangely to Nort.

5. Summarize the preacher's comments about the Interloper.

6. Describe what the gunslinger passes in the desert after he leaves the town three weeks before.

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

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

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

10. Explain why the gunslinger tells Allie he is leaving in the morning.

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