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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 does Eddie draw in the dirt at the speaking ring in Chapter 25?

2. Who finally shoots and kills Mir in Chapter 8?

3. To whom does Jake leave a note in Chapter 5?

4. From whom does Jake get a note in Chapter 20?

5. What is written on the stone marker Jake sees in a dream in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Roland is distracted in the first chapter. What does he tell Susannah is causing this distraction?

3. What surprises Jake about the grade he receives on his Final Essay in English?

4. Where does Roland tell Susannah to shoot the bear?

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

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

7. What causes Jake to become obsessed with doors?

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

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

10. What does Eddie immediately notice is wrong with the bear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Roland? Why is he teaching Susannah to shoot a gun? Is Roland cruel when he makes Susannah think of her past to make her angry enough to shoot straight? Why can Roland not shoot a gun? What happened to Roland? When? What is Roland's mission? Where is he going? For what reason? What will happen when he get there? How does he plan to get there?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following relationships in detail:

1) Roland and Susannah

2) Roland and Eddie

3) Roland and Jake

4) Susannah and Eddie

5) Eddie and Henry.

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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