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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. Where does Susan imagine herself and Roland lying together with their foreheads touching?

2. What comes out of the white shape when Roland strikes it?

3. What kind of dress replaces the blue dress with beads?

4. What game is Eldred Jonas playing at the Coral Thorin?

5. What is a thinny?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Susan please Rhea in this section?

2. How do Sheemie and Olive free Susan?

3. How does Rhea's cat ruin her ball?

4. How does Rhea shock the Big Coffin Hunters in this section?

5. How does Susan arrange to meet Roland at the orange grove?

6. What do the Gunslingers think about the ranchers in this section?

7. What does Roland say happened to all the characters after he left the town?

8. Why are Cuthbert and Alain worried about Roland?

9. What does Susan want to do to her aunt when she sees her sitting in her rocker?

10. How does Jonas frame the Gunslingers for murder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare King's mid-earth to our own world.

1. What are the differences between mid-earth and earth?

2. How does King create a fantasy wile still allowing the readers to connect with it and its inhabitants?

3. How do you think you would survive in mid-earth?

Essay Topic 2

1. How does the death of Susan's father affect Susan?

2. How would Susan's live have been different if her was not murdered?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Roland's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did Roland hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Roland ideas about life?

3. How has Roland's character changed by the end of the book?

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