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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. Why does Roland feel the need to put his abilities on display for the villagers?
(a) Because Roland and the others like to show their skills.
(b) Because the ka-tet needs the practice.
(c) So the villagers can see how talented the ka-tet is.
(d) So he can impress the most influential member of the village and convince him that Roland and the ka-tet are who they say they are.

2. What does Eddie notice about the stranger immediately?
(a) That the stranger is from Eddie, Jake, and Susannah's world.
(b) That he is there to help the ka-tet.
(c) That he is an imposter.
(d) That he is a spy.

3. Where do Roland, Eddie, and Susannah stay their first night in the village?
(a) At Father Callahan's rectory.
(b) At the schoolhouse.
(c) In Wayne Overholser's cow barn.
(d) In Benny Slightman's garage.

4. In Part 2, Chapter 1, what does Roland make Rosalita promise?
(a) That she will keep Roland's ailment a secret.
(b) That she will search for the Wolves on her own.
(c) That she will go with the ka-tet when they leave.
(d) That she will keep an eye on Susannah.

5. Why does Eddie start to read the paperwork the group is discussing in the storeroom?
(a) The storeowner can't read the paperwork.
(b) Eddie is nosy.
(c) Eddie believes it has something to do with why he and Jake arrived at the store.
(d) Eddie wants to learn how to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Calvin Tower's used bookstore?

2. How is Mia born?

3. What does Eddie hear when he and Jake are in the office of the bookstore, after Eddie begins to read the paperwork?

4. What does Mia do in the night?

5. How do Jake and Eddie travel away from Roland?

Short Essay Questions

1. The leader of the mysterious group following the ka-tet approaches the ka-tet and reveals the group's purpose. Who is this group and what is their purpose?

2. Once the children of Calla Bryn Sturgis are returned after being abducted by the Wolves, what are they like?

3. Who is Mia, and why is she important to the story thus far?

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

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

6. 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?

7. Why is Eddie hesitant to get involved with the people from Calla Bryn Sturgis and their troubles with the Wolves?

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

9. What type of a person does Wayne Overholser appear to be?

10. 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?

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