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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 does Jake think is important about the key he has found in Chapter 17?

2. Who are the Old People?

3. From whom does Jake get a note in Chapter 20?

4. Upon what books does Stephen King say he based the Dark Tower Series in the Introduction of this novel?

5. What does Roland say in Chapter 14 he learned from Jake when he hypnotized him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the contrast between The Piper School and Jake's mental difficulties?

2. What advice does Jake give someone to quiet the voices in his head? How does Jake do this?

3. What do Roland, Susannah, and Eddie find as they trace the path of the bear?

4. Who is Odetta Walker? Why does Susannah call her out in Chapter 23?

5. What impression does Jake get from the empty lot where Tom and Gerry's Artistic Deli once stood?

6. Who does Jake meet in his dreams in Chapter 3?

7. What causes Jake to become obsessed with doors?

8. What road do Roland, Susannah, and Eddie find in Chapter 7? Where do they believe it will lead them?

9. Why does Jake believe he might be going insane?

10. What fear haunts Eddie all through Chapters 7-15?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Eddie carve a key out of wood? What is the purpose of this key? Does Eddie understand the importance of the key when he first begins carving it? How does this key compare to the one Jake has in his world? What does the key do for Jake when he holds it? Does this work for Roland? Why or why not? What does this key open? Does it work the first time Eddie uses it? What happens? What might have happened if Eddie had not carved the key?

Essay Topic 2

What is Blaine? What do Roland and his friends know about him? What more do they learn when they meet him? What does Blaine control? How did this come to be? Who wants to take over? Why does Blaine want to commit suicide? How does he plan to do this? How does Roland convince him to do something else? How does Blaine compare to Charlie and the Choo-Choo? What does that say about the book Jake bought in New York City? What about the book of riddles? How do riddles figure in the plot of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following items and what they symbolize in the overall plot of the novel:

1) Rose

2) Key

3) Book of Riddles

4) Charlie the Choo-choo

5) The gun of Jake's father

6) Roland's gun and gunbelt.

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