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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 1, Chapters 4 - 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the voice Eddie hears in his head as he carves saying to him?
(a) The voice tells him how beautiful his work is.
(b) The voice ridicules him for not doing better.
(c) The voice encourages him to do better.
(d) The voice calls him weak, a sissy for carving.

2. Upon what books does Stephen King say he based the Dark Tower Series in the Introduction of this novel?
(a) Disney's Mary Poppins.
(b) Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.
(d) Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

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

4. What does Susannah call the men who once tortured her as discussed in Chapter 1?
(a) Mahfah fathers.
(b) Honky tonks.
(c) Tonk mothers.
(d) Honk mahfahs.

5. Who is Mir?
(a) A friend of Roland's.
(b) A spacestation.
(c) Susannah's husband.
(d) The old bear who who lives in the woods where Roland and his friends are camped.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author capitalize the phrase, Watch Out for Eddie repeatedly in Chapter 3?

2. Who was Gloria?

3. What comes out of the bear's nose each time it sneezes in Chapter 2?

4. What does Roland hope to find at the Great Portal as he tells Eddie and Susannah in Chapter 12?

5. What did Hax tell Roland was the last act of the Great Old Ones?

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