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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 reason does Blaine give in Chapter 39 for killing everyone in Lud?
(a) They want to die.
(b) They deserve to die.
(c) They treated him badly.
(d) They bore him.

2. What contest does Roland's ka-tet and Blaine enter into in the final pages of the novel?
(a) A riddle contest.
(b) A singing contest.
(c) A mathmatic contest.
(d) A spelling contest.

3. Why does Gasher make Jake sing in Chapter 25?
(a) To entertain Gasher.
(b) To keep the haunts that live in the machines away.
(c) To announce their arrival to Tick-Tock Man.
(d) To throw Roland off their trail.

4. Where did Eddie and Roland get the Keflex pills they give to Jake in Chapter 1?
(a) Gilead.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

5. What back beat does Eddie believe is playing from unseen source in Chapter 15?
(a) Bob Marley.
(b) Rolling Stones.
(c) ZZ Top.
(d) Bruce Springsteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roland call the bison like animals that Jake sees in Chapter 2?

2. What do Roland and his friends find in Chapter 5?

3. What warning does Maud give to Susannah in Chapter 25?

4. What does Jake find beneath the fist-and-thunderbolt symbol on the side of the plane in Chapter 1?

5. Why does Roland believe Oy was pushed out of his pack in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jake believe is the purpose of Blaine in their quest? What does Eddie see that places this purpose in jeopardy?

2. Why do Roland, Jake, Susannah, and Eddie suddenly find the book Charlie and the Choo-Choo so sinister in Chapters 23-24?

3. What does the ending of the book say about the future of these characters?

4. What is the reaction of the people of River Crossing when they learn Roland is a gunslinger?

5. What does Roland tell his friends about the ka-tet in Chapter 19? What does Eddie realize after he hears this information?

6. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?

7. How does Roland get into the room to rescue Jake in Chapter 34?

8. What does Jake dream in chapter 16? What impression is he left with afterward?

9. What does Susannah notice in the city in Chapter 18? What were they used for?

10. Where does Gasher take Jake?

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