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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 say jokes are supposed to make you do in Chapter 2?

2. Who bursts into the bunker and attacks Tick-Tock Man in Chapter 31?

3. How does Susannah believe the people of River Crossing look at Roland in Chapter 13?

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

5. Who claims to have heard a sonic boom after seeing Blaine running in Lud in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Blaine demand of Eddie and Susannah in Chapter 30 before he will agree to transport Roland and the ka-tet?

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

4. What are the most striking differences between the city of Lud and the underground bunker?

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

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

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

8. What wakes Jake four days after he comes to Roland's world?

9. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?

10. What is significant about the airplane Roland and his ka-tet find in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following items and what they symbolize in the overall plot of the novel:

1) Rose

2) Key

3) Book of Riddles

4) Charlie the Choo-choo

5) The gun of Jake's father

6) Roland's gun and gunbelt.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the use of one of the following style tools in the novel in detail, using examples from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Metaphor

2) Simile

3) Symbolism

4) Lesson.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Roland's world to the New York of Jake's time. Compare and contrast the New York of Eddie's time with the New York of Jake's time. What differences are there? How are they similar? Why do you think the author chose to make New York City the home of Jake, Eddie, and Susannah? How different is that city to each of the three characters? Do you think the setting of New York City will be important to the developing plot? Explain.

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