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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eddie carving in Chapter 4?

2. What is it that Roland claims to want in Chapter 1?

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

4. Why does Roland build a fire in Chapter 17?

5. What does Jake think is important about the key he has found in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the demon help Jake enter Roland's world in Chapter 41?

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Odetta Walker? Why does Susannah call her out in Chapter 23?

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

8. What road do Roland, Susannah, and Eddie find in Chapter 7? Where do they believe it will lead them?

9. What advice does Jake give someone to quiet the voices in his head? How does Jake do this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of these themes in detail, using examples from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Dreams

2) Surreality

3) Friendship

4) Family

5) Bravery.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss gunslingers. What is a gunslinger? What is Roland's role as a gunslinger? How is Roland's role different from the traditional idea of a gunslinger? How is it similar? Why do you suppose the author chose to make Roland a gunslinger? What does this say about Roland's adventures? How is Roland treated by the people he comes into contact with? What does this say about the role of gunslinger in Roland's world?

Essay Topic 3

This novel is one in a series of novels about Roland and his ka-tet. Discuss in an essay how this novel might fit in with the other novels. Discuss back story presented at the beginning of the novel that helps the reader understand what happened in a previous novel. Discuss the cliffhanger ending of the book that leaves room for the next novel's plot. Discuss as well how this novel stands on its own, without the reader having prior knowledge of the novels that come before or after. Could a reader read this book out of order and still understand the point of the plot?

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