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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. How much time is left when Susannah begins entering the combination to open Blaine gate in Chapter 3?
2. What warning does Maud give to Susannah in Chapter 25?
3. What do Roland and his friends find in Chapter 5?
4. What conclusion does Jake come to about Blaine during his dream in Chapter 16?
5. How many miles will Blaine go before he reaches the end of his track?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Susannah and Eddie finally reach Blaine's cradle in Chapter 24?
2. Where does Gasher take Jake?
3. What wakes Jake four days after he comes to Roland's world?
4. What does Jake dream in chapter 16? What impression is he left with afterward?
5. What happens to Roland in Chapters 19 and 23 as he navigates his way through the garbage maze to save Jake?
6. Why do Roland, Jake, Susannah, and Eddie suddenly find the book Charlie and the Choo-Choo so sinister in Chapters 23-24?
7. What is significant about the drum beat that Roland and his ka-tet have been able to hear for days since beginning their approach to Lud? What becomes apparent about the purpose of this drum beat?
8. What is the reaction of the people of River Crossing when they learn Roland is a gunslinger?
9. What does Susannah notice in the city in Chapter 18? What were they used for?
10. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
What are the Beams? How are they going to lead Roland and his friends to the Dark Tower? What is the Dark Tower? What will happen when Roland and his friends reach the Dark Tower? How is Jake following the Beams while still in his own world? Does he know he is following the Beams? How does Roland know about the Beams? Where did Roland learn much of what he knows about the Dark Tower? Why will Roland not share his past with his friends? Is Roland trying to hide something? Explain.
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