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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tick-Tock Man want the computers for, as he admits in Chapter 31?
(a) To take over the world.
(b) To stop them from playing the drum back beat.
(c) To work for him so he can control Lud.
(d) To kill everyone in Lud.

2. In what way did Tick-Tock Man kill the laughing woman?
(a) With a knife he threw across the room.
(b) With a rope around her throat.
(c) With a poison.
(d) With a gun.

3. How can Blaine tell when Eddie or Susannah are lying to him?
(a) It cannot.
(b) Lie detector software.
(c) Voice analysis.
(d) It knows everything.

4. Where is Jake in a dream in Chapter 16?
(a) California.
(b) Western Missouri.
(c) New York.
(d) West Texas.

5. To what machines does Tick-Tock Man compare the feeling in his head in Chapter 40?
(a) A printing press.
(b) A machine press.
(c) A clothes press.
(d) A cider press.

6. Who bursts into the bunker and attacks Tick-Tock Man in Chapter 31?
(a) Oy.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Gasher.
(d) Roland.

7. Why does Aunt Talitha believe the people of Lud would like to keep Jake in Chapter 10?
(a) He is intelligent.
(b) He is young.
(c) He is strong.
(d) He is male.

8. Who does Little Blaine say he is in Chapter 27?
(a) The creator of the machines.
(b) The ghost inside the machines.
(c) The one left behind in rooms of ruin and halls of the dead.
(d) The unforgotten.

9. Who falls over the edge of the bridge in Chapter 12?
(a) Roland.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Oy.
(d) Jake.

10. Why does Jake briefly think about stepping on a trigger to a boobytrap in Chapter 19?
(a) He hopes it will alert Roland to his location.
(b) He wants to kill Gasher.
(c) He hopes it will make things safer for Roland and the others.
(d) Because it has to be better than what Gasher has planned for him.

11. How does Eddie prove to Big Blaine who he is and where he came from in Chapter 27?
(a) By listing the landmarks in New York.
(b) By showing his Ruger.
(c) By listing the names of his ka-tet.
(d) By showing his driver's license.

12. How does Roland say he knows they are being followed in Chapter 2?
(a) He saw smoke.
(b) He noticed the odd behavior of the animals.
(c) He has seen people.
(d) He smells people.

13. Why does Roland put a leash on Oy in Chapter 23?
(a) So Oy will not run away.
(b) To keep him from chasing after Jake.
(c) To protect him from Gasher.
(d) So Oy can lead Roland to Jake in the dark.

14. What does one of the twins say fell out of the sky like Icarus in Chapter 9?
(a) A flying man.
(b) A child.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A bird.

15. What does Susannah think in Chapter 3 made Roland turn inward on himself?
(a) The Big War.
(b) The Big Bomb.
(c) The Big Depression.
(d) The Big Empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man who visits Tick-Tock Man in Chapter 40 ask Tick-Tock Man to call him?

2. Where did Eddie and Roland get the Keflex pills they give to Jake in Chapter 1?

3. What do the people of River Crossing line up to do before Roland in Chapter 13?

4. What has happened to Jake's watch as he notes in Chapter 1?

5. What does Susannah ask Blaine in Chapter 30?

(see the answer keys)

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