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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. What sound draws Susannah and Roland away from shooting practice in Chapter 1?
(a) Answering gunshots.
(b) A bomb going off in the distance.
(c) Crashing trees.
(d) The approach of a stranger.

2. What shape does Eddie draw in the dirt in Chapter 17?
(a) A gun.
(b) A broken tooth.
(c) The shape of a key.
(d) A rose.

3. Where is the Great Portal?
(a) In Eddie's world.
(b) In Susannah's world.
(c) The center of six lines that connect the Twelve Portals.
(d) Off center of one of the Twelve Portals.

4. What is the Drawers according to Roland?
(a) Desolation or waste lands.
(b) Pain and death.
(c) Life.
(d) Hope.

5. What significant event happened to or will happen to Jake on May 9th as stated in Chapter 1?
(a) He will be hit by a car.
(b) He will die in Roland's world.
(c) He will win a literary prize.
(d) He will graduate from sixth grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Susannah think the speaking ring looks like in Chapter 23?

2. What game did Henry teach Eddie to play as he tells the reader in Chapter 3?

3. What does Susannah call the men who once tortured her as discussed in Chapter 1?

4. Who is the first person Susannah thinks of in Chapter 1 as she listens to the falling trees?

5. Where does Roland claim he killed Jake in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Jake meet in Chapter 20? To where does Jake follow this character?

2. What do Roland, Susannah, and Eddie find as they trace the path of the bear?

3. Where does Roland tell Susannah to shoot the bear?

4. Why does Jake believe he might be going insane?

5. What fear haunts Eddie all through Chapters 7-15?

6. What terrible tragedy took place in Eddie's family that caused his mother to encourage Henry to be Eddie's constant guardian?

7. What impression does Jake get from the empty lot where Tom and Gerry's Artistic Deli once stood?

8. Why did Eddie once stop carving objects out of wood?

9. In a dream, Eddie walks to what location in New York City? What does he see there?

10. Where did Roland first meet Jake? How?

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