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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 has happened to Jake's watch as he notes in Chapter 1?
2. What story does Eddie want Roland to tell in Chapter 6?
3. What does Susannah ask Blaine in Chapter 30?
4. Why can Blaine not differentiate between fact and superstition?
5. What reason does Blaine give in Chapter 39 for killing everyone in Lud?
Short Essay Questions
1. What weakness does Jake discover in Gasher's personality in Chapter 25?
2. How does Roland get into the room to rescue Jake in Chapter 34?
3. What happens to Roland in Chapters 19 and 23 as he navigates his way through the garbage maze to save Jake?
4. What wakes Jake four days after he comes to Roland's world?
5. 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?
6. What do Bill and Till tell Roland and his ka-tet about the large city of Lud?
7. Who is Gasher? What does he want?
8. Why do Roland, Jake, Susannah, and Eddie suddenly find the book Charlie and the Choo-Choo so sinister in Chapters 23-24?
9. What does Jake dream in chapter 16? What impression is he left with afterward?
10. What does Roland tell his friends about the ka-tet in Chapter 19? What does Eddie realize after he hears this information?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Who is Susannah? What caused her to need a wheelchair? Who is she married to? Why does Susannah have difficulty learning to fire a gun? What does Roland do to make her shoot the gun? Who is Odetta? How did Susannah come to share her mind with Odetta? What does Odetta do to help Susannah and the others? What does this say about Odetta's character? What does it say about Susannah that she allows Odetta to share her mind?
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