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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 bursts into the bunker and attacks Tick-Tock Man in Chapter 31?
2. What movie does Jake recall watching as he descends deeper under the city of Lud in Chapter 25?
3. Who does Jake guess was Tick-Tock Man's grandfather in Chapter 28?
4. Who led the final army against the war in Lud as described in Chapter 10?
5. What story does Eddie want Roland to tell in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. What surprising things does Roland learn about Oy in Chapter 29?
2. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?
3. How do Susannah and Eddie finally reach Blaine's cradle in Chapter 24?
4. What is significant about the drum beat that Roland and his ka-tet have been able to hear for days since beginning their approach to Lud? What becomes apparent about the purpose of this drum beat?
5. What does the ending of the book say about the future of these characters?
6. What does Jake believe is the purpose of Blaine in their quest? What does Eddie see that places this purpose in jeopardy?
7. What is significant about the airplane Roland and his ka-tet find in Chapter 1?
8. What weakness does Jake discover in Gasher's personality in Chapter 25?
9. What does Jake believe Blaine, whom he has constantly seen as a danger, plans to do in Chapter 8?
10. Where does Gasher take Jake?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 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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