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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Roland claims to want in Chapter 1?
(a) Music.
(b) Sanity.
(c) Food.
(d) Silence.

2. What did Henry steal from the girl Maryanne in Chapter 21?
(a) Her purse.
(b) Her gum.
(c) Her movie ticket.
(d) Her tabloid paper.

3. Which guardian does Roland talk about in a poem taught him by his nursemaid?
(a) The fish.
(b) The turtle.
(c) The lion.
(d) The bear.

4. In her shooting lessons in Chapter 1, what has Susannah forgotten if she aims with her hand?
(a) The love of her father.
(b) The face of her father.
(c) The support of her father.
(d) The hand of her father.

5. What does a voice in Eddie's head tell him in Chapter 1?
(a) To tell Susannah to keep Odetta asleep.
(b) To tell Roland to hold the key to make the voices stop.
(c) To tell Henry the truth about his cruelty.
(d) To tell Jake to stay where he is.

6. Who is Walter?
(a) The man in white, Roland's teacher.
(b) The man in black, Roland's nemesis.
(c) Roland's brother.
(d) Roland's best friend.

7. Who are the Old People?
(a) Long gone people who once lived in Roland's world.
(b) The people who once tortured Susannah.
(c) The people who live in nursing homes throughout Roland's world.
(d) Roland's ancestors.

8. A poster of what actor in Chapter 20 reminds Jake of Roland?
(a) Clint Eastwood.
(b) Roy Rogers.
(c) The Lone Ranger.
(d) John Wayne.

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

10. What is the name of the business Eddie visits in his dreams in Chapter 19?
(a) Tom and Gerry's Artistic Deli.
(b) Laurel and Hardy's Comedy Shop.
(c) Moe and Curley's Literary Book Sellers.
(d) Batman and Robin's Comic Store.

11. What is the name of the bookstore Jake visits in Chapters 12-13?
(a) Borders.
(b) The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind.
(c) Tom and Gerry's Artistic Booksellers.
(d) The Bookworm.

12. Who does Eddie believe he met just before Henry went into the army in the 1970s?
(a) Jack Mort.
(b) Jake.
(c) Roland.
(d) Walter.

13. Who is the first person Susannah thinks of in Chapter 1 as she listens to the falling trees?
(a) Herself.
(b) Roland.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Odetta.

14. What is Eddie carving in Chapter 4?
(a) A slingshot.
(b) A dog.
(c) A bear.
(d) A toy gun.

15. What name does Jake call the rose in Chapter 18?
(a) Rose.
(b) Allie.
(c) Susannah.
(d) Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finally shoots and kills Mir in Chapter 8?

2. What does Jake hope will happen each time he walks through a door?

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

4. How long has Jake been fighting the rising madness inside him as stated in Chapter 1?

5. What does Roland say in Chapter 14 he learned from Jake when he hypnotized him?

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