Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many miles will Blaine go before he reaches the end of his track?
2. How does Roland say he knows they are being followed in Chapter 2?
3. Who claims to have heard a sonic boom after seeing Blaine running in Lud in Chapter 11?
4. In what way did Tick-Tock Man kill the laughing woman?
5. Who bursts into the bunker and attacks Tick-Tock Man in Chapter 31?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Gasher? What does he want?
2. What does Jake believe is the purpose of Blaine in their quest? What does Eddie see that places this purpose in jeopardy?
3. Who reports he once saw the train called Blaine in Lud? What did he see?
4. What weakness does Jake discover in Gasher's personality in Chapter 25?
5. What happens to Roland in Chapters 19 and 23 as he navigates his way through the garbage maze to save Jake?
6. What do Bill and Till tell Roland and his ka-tet about the large city of Lud?
7. What does Blaine tell Roland and his ka-tet is the reason he has decided to end his existence?
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
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 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 is Blaine? What do Roland and his friends know about him? What more do they learn when they meet him? What does Blaine control? How did this come to be? Who wants to take over? Why does Blaine want to commit suicide? How does he plan to do this? How does Roland convince him to do something else? How does Blaine compare to Charlie and the Choo-Choo? What does that say about the book Jake bought in New York City? What about the book of riddles? How do riddles figure in the plot of the novel?
|
This section contains 971 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
