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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the stranger tell the ka-tet?
(a) That there is a horrible storm coming and they must seek adequate shelter.
(b) That the group that is following the ka-tet is dangerous.
(c) That he is dying and needs their help.
(d) That the village of Calla Bryn Sturgis needs the gunslinger's help.

2. What year did Jake die the first time?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1596.
(d) 1977.

3. Why is the vacant lot important?
(a) Because Eddie and Jake know it's valuable real estate in the future, and they want to buy it cheap so they can resell it and make a large amount of money.
(b) Because on the lot grows a rose that has something to do with the Dark Tower.
(c) Because Roland believes that the Dark Tower is built upon it and exists there in the future.
(d) Because the mobsters think there is gold and other valuable minerals underneath the soil.

4. 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 sacrifice of the village's children will bring them all a bountiful harvest, and he does not want anyone to interfere with the Wolves.
(b) Because he does not think Roland is really a gunslinger from the house of Eld, as he claims.
(c) Because he believes the Wolves mean the village no harm.
(d) Because he does not trust Roland and his ka-tet.

5. At the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 3, when Roland wakes, he finds ___________________.
(a) Andy cooking breakfast.
(b) Susannah walking to a swamp.
(c) Eddie reading a book.
(d) Jake telling a story.

6. What about the villagers' story is Roland most curious about?
(a) How all sixty of the Wolves could have gray horses to ride.
(b) If there are other villages having similar problems.
(c) Why the births in Calla Bryn Sturgis are so irregular.
(d) How helping the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis will help him and his ka-tet find the Dark Tower.

7. Where do the Wolves take the children?
(a) North, to Midland.
(b) West, to Thunder Valley.
(c) South, to Florida.
(d) East, to Thunderclap.

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

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

10. What is one of the most important things to Roland and his relationship with his ka-tet?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Family.
(c) Faith.
(d) Loyalty.

11. What trail are the main characters following to reach their destination?
(a) The Path of the Beam.
(b) They aren't following any trail.
(c) A map Eddie has.
(d) An old hiker's trail.

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

13. When he asks, what description of the Wolves does Roland get?
(a) That there are approximately sixty of them and they ride gray horses.
(b) That they look just like other members of the Callas; they appear as farmers and ranchers.
(c) That no one knows exactly what they look like because no one has ever seen them.
(d) That they are wolves with grey or brown fur, sharp teeth, and bright yellow eyes.

14. What does the stranger tell Roland specifically?
(a) That Roland must beware of the group following the ka-tet.
(b) That Roland must stop looking for the Dark Tower.
(c) That if Roland chooses to help the people of the Calla, he will be taken to the Dark Tower.
(d) That he has an object that Roland should take if he comes to the Calla.

15. Why does Roland decide to help the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis?
(a) Because he wants to find out who the Wolves really are.
(b) Because he and his ka-tet are obligated to help them because of the way of the house of Eld.
(c) Because he believes that helping the people of the village will get the ka-tet to the Dark Tower faster.
(d) Because he owes Pere Callahan a favor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the others that come with the stranger?

2. Why does Eddie think that there is a reason he and Jake traveled to the bookstore?

3. Who is Mia?

4. Who calls a meeting of the men in the community to suggest that the people of the community stand up and fight against the wolves the next time they come?

5. During his time with the people of the village, what does Roland NOT do?

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