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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 are the vagrant dead?
(a) Homeless people who have died.
(b) The bodies of vagabonds.
(c) Something seen when going todash.
(d) Roland's favorite band.

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

3. During his time with the people of the village, what does Roland NOT do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Ask the people the most important question, the one that will bind him and his ka-tet to helping the village of Calla Bryn Sturgis.
(c) Remember his own childhood.
(d) Dance.

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

5. What is unique about Father Callahan?
(a) He can see vampires.
(b) He is a priest.
(c) He knows Roland.
(d) He is very old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is Roland trying to impress by showing his ka-tet's abilities?

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

3. Why does Roland decide to help the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis?

4. What does the contract say that the mobsters and the second-hand bookstore owner were reading ?

5. Why does Roland feel the need to put his abilities on display for the villagers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is Tian's motivation for bringing the community together and suggesting that the entire village stand up and fight against the Wolves?

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

5. Why is the vacant lot so important?

6. What is an outstanding theme already developing ?

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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