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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. How do Jake and Roland find their way to Susannah and Eddie in Chapter 38?

2. What is a monorail?

3. Why does Jake begin to cry at the end of Chapter 13?

4. What is the password Gasher has Jake read from a piece of paper in Chapter 25?

5. In what way did Tick-Tock Man kill the laughing woman?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Gasher? What does he want?

3. What does Blaine tell Roland and his ka-tet is the reason he has decided to end his existence?

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

5. What does Roland tell his friends about the ka-tet in Chapter 19? What does Eddie realize after he hears this information?

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

7. What does Susannah notice in the city in Chapter 18? What were they used for?

8. What surprising things does Roland learn about Oy in Chapter 29?

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

10. What does Jake dream in chapter 16? What impression is he left with afterward?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Who is Eddie? Why has Eddie not carved in wood for many years? What made him stop? What made him start again? Why is Eddie ashamed of his talents? What important item does Eddie carve upon Jake's arrival in Roland's world? Does this item work? What does this say about Eddie's talents? Does Eddie miss his hometown? For what reason? What is Eddie's relationship with his brother like? How has impacted his life?

Essay Topic 3

Who leads Jake to the Mansion? How did Jake know to follow this person? What happens to Jake once he goes inside the Mansion? How does Jake lose the key? How does he get it back? What tries to stop Jake from crossing into Roland's world? Why? Who helps Jake survive his ordeal? Why does Jake want to go to Roland's world? What would have happened to him if he had not? What happens to Jake's family? Does Jake worry about this? What does the future hold for Jake?

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