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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 do Roland and his friends find in Chapter 5?
2. Why did Roland allow Gasher to take Jake as he explains it to Eddie in Chapter 15?
3. Why does Blaine say he wants to kill himself in Chapter 9?
4. What is a monorail?
5. What does Susannah ask Blaine in Chapter 30?
Short Essay Questions
1. What surprising things does Roland learn about Oy in Chapter 29?
2. What do Eddie and Susannah learn about Blaine in Chapter 27?
3. What is significant about the drum beat that Roland and his ka-tet have been able to hear for days since beginning their approach to Lud? What becomes apparent about the purpose of this drum beat?
4. What are the most striking differences between the city of Lud and the underground bunker?
5. Who is Gasher? What does he want?
6. What is significant about the airplane Roland and his ka-tet find in Chapter 1?
7. In Chapters 5-6, what happens to Blaine's cabin walls? For what reason?
8. Why do Roland, Jake, Susannah, and Eddie suddenly find the book Charlie and the Choo-Choo so sinister in Chapters 23-24?
9. How did Mercy lose her eyesight?
10. What happens to Roland in Chapters 19 and 23 as he navigates his way through the garbage maze to save Jake?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Tick-Tock Man? What does he want from Jake? Why does he have Gasher kidnap Jake? What does Tick-Tock want Jake to give him as a gift? Who is Tick-Tock's father? What does that make Tick-Tock? Is Tick-Tock human? Is Tick-Tock a robot? How does the reader know? What would happen to the city if Tick-Tock got what he wanted? Is this helpful or harmful to Roland and his friends? Who shoots Tick-Tock? For what reason? Who offers to help Tick-Tock get revenge on Roland and his friends? What does this suggest for Roland and his friends' future?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the use of one of the following style tools in the novel in detail, using examples from the novel to support your conclusions:
1) Metaphor
2) Simile
3) Symbolism
4) Lesson.
Essay Topic 3
Who is Jake? What school does he go to? Why does Jake think he is going crazy? What does Jake write in the final days of school that he thinks is an example of his insanity? What does his teacher think of it? What does Jake take from his father's desk before he leaves home for good? Where does Jake go? For what reason? How does Jake cross over into Roland's world? Who helps him? For what reason?
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