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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens weeks after the Wolves come to Calla Bryn Sturgis?
(a) Nothing.
(b) All of the livestock in the village dies.
(c) It rains for seven days, flooding the farmland.
(d) The children return.

2. Roland does not tell anyone in the ka-tet what he knows about Mia because _______________.
(a) He isn't sure of his suspicions.
(b) He doesn't want to scare Jake.
(c) He doesn't know anything about Mia.
(d) He doesn't want to upset Susannah or explain the reality of the situation to Eddie.

3. At the beginning of Part 2, how does the crowd receive the ka-tet?
(a) They reject them and shout at them to leave.
(b) They are indifferent to their presence.
(c) They fear them.
(d) They are accepting of them.

4. What do the others feel when they visit the vacant lot?
(a) They all feel a sense of peace and are drawn to the rose.
(b) They all feel nauseous.
(c) They all feel like they are in danger.
(d) They all feel a sense of belonging and of being at home.

5. Whom is Roland trying to impress by showing his ka-tet's abilities?
(a) Mia.
(b) Tia.
(c) Wayne Overholser.
(d) Oy the billy-bumbler.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Part 2, who does Roland urge to speak to the crowd?

2. Where do Roland, Eddie, and Susannah stay their first night in the village?

3. Why does Eddie start to read the paperwork the group is discussing in the storeroom?

4. What year did Jake die the first time?

5. In Part 1, Chapter 7, who goes into the vacant lot to visit the rose?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the vagrant dead?

2. What does Roland tell Eddie at the end of Part 2, Chapter 2, about Susannah?

3. Why does Roland demonstrate the ka-tet's abilities to the group from the Calla in Part 1, Chapter 6?

4. Why does Roland assign Susannah a role where she is to sit back and observe the strangers from the Calla rather than take an active part in their conversations?

5. Why does Roland tell Jake to spend the night with Benny Slightman?

6. What is significant about the setting for this story?

7. The night that the group meets the Calla villagers, the entire ka-tet goes todash to Manhattan. What is different about Susannah there, and why is that important?

8. What is an outstanding theme already developing ?

9. In Part 2, Chapter 1, what does Roland feel when he arrives in Calla Bryn Sturgis?

10. At the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6, what does the group from the Calla explain to Roland and his ka-tet about the Wolves?

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