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

2. What is more common in the Callas than anywhere else?
(a) Babies with black hair and black eyes.
(b) Babies with blonde hair and green eyes.
(c) Twin births.
(d) Singleton births.

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

4. Who are the others that come with the stranger?
(a) Jack, Wendy, and Tom Gordon.
(b) Mia, Oy, Nort, and Trashcan Man.
(c) Tian and Zalia Jaffords, Ben and Benny Slightman, and Wayne Overholser.
(d) Beverly, Sheriff Bannerman, and Johnny.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roland have his ka-tet do to show the villagers their talents?

2. In "Dry Twist," what does Rosalita do for Roland?

3. Who tells the community that there is a gunslinger coming that will help them fight the Wolves?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Roland and his ka-tet meet Father Callahan and the rest of his group from Calla Bryn Sturgis. Why does this group approach the gunslinger and his ka-tet?

4. What was in the contract that Eddie read when he was in Manhattan at the used bookstore, and why is the contract important?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. When the group arrives back at Father Callahan and company's camp, whom do they all see preparing the meal?

8. How do Roland and his ka-tet begin to gain the confidence of the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis in Part 2, Chapter 1?

9. In Part 2, Chapter 2, "Dry Twist," what affliction does Roland reveal to readers and why is it a cause for concern?

10. Why was it important for Eddie to make the first trip to 1977 Manhattan?

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