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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roland tell Eddie and Jake about their recent journey?
(a) That the story was utterly impossible.
(b) That he didn't believe them.
(c) That they went todash.
(d) That the muffin balls made them hallucinate the whole thing.

2. What is the Dark Tower?
(a) A fairy tale.
(b) A building that can only be seen at night.
(c) A building without electricity.
(d) A magical building that is the center of the cosmos.

3. At the beginning of Part 2, who does Roland urge to speak to the crowd?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Oy.
(c) Susannah.
(d) Andy.

4. How often do the Wolves come to Calla Bryn Sturgis?
(a) Once every generation.
(b) Once a year.
(c) Once a decade.
(d) Whenever someone in the village dies.

5. What is it about this village and its inhabitants that makes Roland feel so comfortable?
(a) He knows that everything will work out fine.
(b) They remind him of his own childhood and where he grew up; he is familiar with the songs and dances of the Calla.
(c) He is comfortable no matter where he goes.
(d) He has been to the Calla before.

6. What does Susannah see at the vacant lot that frightens her?
(a) The demon she had to distract so that Roland could save Jake.
(b) The mobsters from the second-hand bookstore.
(c) People that look like they are dead.
(d) The Wolves.

7. For what does Tian use Tia?
(a) Watching the children.
(b) Pulling weeds in the garden.
(c) Plowing the field.
(d) Milking the cows.

8. What is unique about Father Callahan?
(a) He knows Roland.
(b) He is very old.
(c) He can see vampires.
(d) He is a priest.

9. At the party in Part 2,. Chapter 1, after the introductions and dinner and after the members of the ka-tet have had a chance to talk with the people, what does Roland do?
(a) He gives square dancing calls to the crowd while the band plays.
(b) He tells a series of knock-knock jokes to the crowd.
(c) He gets on the stage and asks the crowd two questions.
(d) He sings his favorite Frank Sinatra song.

10. Which member of the ka-tet believes that the people following the group WILL NOT cause problems?
(a) Roland.
(b) Jake.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Nort.

11. Out of the others that come with the stranger, why does the large landowner dominate the conversation and ask so many questions?
(a) Because he believes the Wolves mean the village no harm.
(b) Because he does not think Roland is really a gunslinger from the house of Eld, as he claims.
(c) Because he does not trust Roland and his ka-tet.
(d) Because he believes the sacrifice of the village's children will bring them all a bountiful harvest, and he does not want anyone to interfere with the Wolves.

12. Who is Andy?
(a) The gunslinger.
(b) A robot.
(c) A child in the community.
(d) A father of a child in the community.

13. Why is the second-hand bookstore so important?
(a) The owner is the Dark Tower's innkeeper.
(b) The bookstore building is the Dark Tower.
(c) The owner is Jake's father.
(d) Jake bought some books there in his previous life that proved useful to Roland and the ka-tet during their journeys.

14. What does Eddie find peculiar about the stranger's name?
(a) That he has heard of Susannah talk of him.
(b) That it is familiar to Eddie, but he can't figure out why.
(c) That he knew a man with this name in his previous time.
(d) That it contains the word "Calla" and that it contains nineteen letters.

15. What are Roland and his ka-tet on a quest to find?
(a) The Dark Tower.
(b) His father.
(c) A ring.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the vacant lot important?

2. What does Roland instruct his ka-tet about when they arrive in Calla Bryn Sturgis in Part 2, Chapter 1?

3. What does Mia do in the night?

4. What is different about the bowling alley's name?

5. What is more common in the Callas than anywhere else?

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