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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 does Roland find his way through the maze in Chapter 20?

2. What is the old woman afraid Roland and his friends are in Chapter 4?

3. What does one of the twins say fell out of the sky like Icarus in Chapter 9?

4. What does Gasher stop to show Jake in Chapter 19?

5. Why does Aunt Talitha believe the people of Lud would like to keep Jake in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Bill and Till tell Roland and his ka-tet about the large city of Lud?

2. Who reports he once saw the train called Blaine in Lud? What did he see?

3. What does Jake believe Blaine, whom he has constantly seen as a danger, plans to do in Chapter 8?

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

5. What surprising things does Roland learn about Oy in Chapter 29?

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

7. How does Roland communicate with Jake in Chapter 31?

8. What do Eddie and Susannah learn about Blaine in Chapter 27?

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

10. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Why does Roland suffer from dual memories? What does this mean? What is the difference between Roland's two sets of memory? Who else suffers from dual memories? What does this say about this character's relationship with Roland? Which reality is true? Why are there more than one reality? Does the author ever fully explain these dual memories? What effect do these memories on the two characters who experience them? How do they learn to cope?

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