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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 is a way-gog?

2. What does Susannah suddenly realize was left behind in Chapter 4?

3. Who falls over the edge of the bridge in Chapter 12?

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

5. What is the name of the man who gave Jake the riddle book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What weakness does Jake discover in Gasher's personality in Chapter 25?

3. What happens to Roland in Chapters 19 and 23 as he navigates his way through the garbage maze to save Jake?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who are Si and Mercy? Where did they come from? How does Roland feel about them? What do Roland and his friends learn about the city of Lud from these people? How does this information help Roland and his friends? How does it confirm something they already knew? What does Charlie and the Choo-Choo have to do with the city and the story Roland and his friends learn about it? Is this foreshadowing? Explain.

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

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.

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