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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 was Susannah forced to do to save Jake in the past?
(a) Travel to a dangerous place and steal medicine.
(b) Go hungry so that he might eat.
(c) Distract a demon so Eddie and Roland could rescue Jake.
(d) Lie to Roland.

2. When the ka-tet travel back with the group from the Calla to their camp for lunch, who is cooking the meal?
(a) Andy.
(b) Mia.
(c) Tia.
(d) Oy.

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

4. When Susannah stares at the clock, what does she suddenly realize?
(a) That she has lost time.
(b) That time has gone backward.
(c) That it is almost midnight.
(d) That time has sped up.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roland suspect about his body when he wakes up the first morning in the village?

2. Where do the Wolves take the children?

3. To whom does Jake take an immediate liking?

4. At the beginning of Part 2, how does the crowd receive the ka-tet?

5. What is the name of the community that the Wolves come to each generation?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What are the vagrant dead?

3. How does Jake react to the newcomers?

4. 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?

5. What type of person does Father Callahan appear to be?

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

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

8. At the end of Part 1, Chapter 2 Eddie hears chimes while he is reading the paper the mobsters and the store owner are discussing. Is this significant?

9. 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?

10. What does Jake grab off of the ground when they are at the vacant lot?

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