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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 a voice in Eddie's head tell him in Chapter 1?

2. What is the Drawers according to Susannah?

3. Who finally shoots and kills Mir in Chapter 8?

4. Why does Roland call Susannah Odetta in Chapter 1?

5. Who does Roland say the Great Old Ones were in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How many things happen to Jake in Chapters 16-23 that also happened in Roland's world?

3. In a dream, Eddie walks to what location in New York City? What does he see there?

4. What terrible tragedy took place in Eddie's family that caused his mother to encourage Henry to be Eddie's constant guardian?

5. What happens to the Mansion as Jake attempts to enter Roland's world in Chapter 33?

6. Why does Jake leave his family's home? What of his father's does he take?

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

8. Who does Jake meet in Chapter 20? To where does Jake follow this character?

9. What makes Jake stop in a bookstore in Chapter 13? What does he buy there?

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

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

Who is Roland? Why is he teaching Susannah to shoot a gun? Is Roland cruel when he makes Susannah think of her past to make her angry enough to shoot straight? Why can Roland not shoot a gun? What happened to Roland? When? What is Roland's mission? Where is he going? For what reason? What will happen when he get there? How does he plan to get there?

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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