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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 does Eddie often see in a piece of wood?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A potential tool.
(c) The potential for a weapon.
(d) A shape waiting for someone to let it out.

2. What does Jake hope will happen each time he walks through a door?
(a) He will die.
(b) He will find his killer.
(c) He will regain his sanity.
(d) He will return to Roland.

3. What is a palaver?
(a) A position in the household of a magician.
(b) A type of hat Roland wears.
(c) To discuss a specific subject on a specific day with your friends.
(d) To have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds.

4. Why does Roland believe he is going insane in Chapter1?
(a) He is seeing people who are not there.
(b) He is having dreams of dual memories.
(c) He is hearing voices in his head.
(d) He is not sleeping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie often see when he looks at a piece of wood?

2. What does Jake realize in Chapter 4 is the answer to Aaron Deepneau's riddle?

3. What game are Eddie and Henry playing in Chapter 22?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Jake stop in a bookstore in Chapter 13? What does he buy there?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where did Roland first meet Jake? How?

(see the answer keys)

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