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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Eddie asks Andy about the Wolves?

2. When he asks, what description of the Wolves does Roland get?

3. Who is Mia?

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

5. What does Eddie find peculiar about the stranger's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the vagrant dead?

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

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

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. 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?

6. What is an outstanding theme already developing ?

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

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

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

10. What is the significance of Eddie and Jake traveling back to Manhattan in the year 1977?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Father Callahan being a Catholic priest and his being an alcoholic?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the setting (that of a Western movie) of this story, and how does that clash with Andy, the Wolves, and the Dogan? Use examples from the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Jake feels guilt over what he saw at the embankment and at the Dogan as well as when Benny is killed during the battle with the Wolves. Is there any justification in his guilt? Explain your answer and use the text to support your ideas.

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