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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 boy in Jake's dream who tells him he is there to guide him?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Roland.
(c) Henry.
(d) Walter.

2. Who is waiting for Jake in Chapter 17 when he arrives home?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) His French teacher.

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

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

5. What was Eddie's drug of choice in his life in 1980's New York?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Oxycodon.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Crystal Meth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Roland tell Susannah and Eddie he once met Jake in Chapter 14?

2. Who does Roland say the Great Old Ones were in Chapter 12?

3. What does Eddie show Roland that he has been carving in Chapter 1?

4. What is the name of the bookstore Jake visits in Chapters 12-13?

5. How long does Jake believe, in Chapter 5, he will be gone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Roland believe the bear's purpose was?

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

4. Who does Roland talk of when he collapses after the death of the bear?

5. What are Eddie's options when he hears the bear crashing down trees and headed in his direction?

6. How many things happen to Jake in Chapters 16-23 that also happened in Roland's world?

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

8. Why does Jake leave his family's home? What of his father's does he take?

9. What is the relationship between Roland, Susannah, and Eddie?

10. What is the contrast between The Piper School and Jake's mental difficulties?

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