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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. Who does Jake guess was Tick-Tock Man's grandfather in Chapter 28?

2. What does Eddie believe caused the crash?

3. What is the purple cloud Jake and the others can see covering the city in Chapter 6?

4. What do Roland and his friends find in Chapter 5?

5. What is a monorail?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Roland, Jake, Susannah, and Eddie suddenly find the book Charlie and the Choo-Choo so sinister in Chapters 23-24?

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

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

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

6. What is the reaction of the people of River Crossing when they learn Roland is a gunslinger?

7. Who is Gasher? What does he want?

8. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?

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

10. How do Susannah and Eddie finally reach Blaine's cradle in Chapter 24?

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

Why does Eddie carve a key out of wood? What is the purpose of this key? Does Eddie understand the importance of the key when he first begins carving it? How does this key compare to the one Jake has in his world? What does the key do for Jake when he holds it? Does this work for Roland? Why or why not? What does this key open? Does it work the first time Eddie uses it? What happens? What might have happened if Eddie had not carved the key?

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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