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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 does Eddie hear when he and Jake are in the office of the bookstore, after Eddie begins to read the paperwork?
(a) Chimes.
(b) The bell at the door of the store that goes off when customers enter or leave.
(c) A police siren.
(d) A fire engine siren.

2. What trail are the main characters following to reach their destination?
(a) They aren't following any trail.
(b) The Path of the Beam.
(c) An old hiker's trail.
(d) A map Eddie has.

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

4. Why does Jake pick the object up off of the ground in the vacant lot?
(a) He doesn't know.
(b) He thinks it is Roland's.
(c) He doesn't like litter.
(d) He feels compelled to pick it up, as if the rose has left it for him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the vagrant dead?

2. When the ka-tet goes to sleep that night after meeting the villagers, what happens?

3. What does the stranger tell Roland specifically?

4. What year did Jake die the first time?

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why is the vacant lot so important?

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

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

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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