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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Calvin Tower's used bookstore?
(a) Rizzoli Bookstore.
(b) Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind.
(c) Kinokuniya Bookstore.
(d) Strand Bookstore.

2. What does Roland feel when he and his ka-tet arrive?
(a) A sense of homecoming.
(b) Hope.
(c) Fear.
(d) Dread.

3. What is the Dark Tower?
(a) A fairy tale.
(b) A magical building that is the center of the cosmos.
(c) A building without electricity.
(d) A building that can only be seen at night.

4. Which member of the ka-tet is worried that the people following the group will cause problems?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Nort.
(c) Roland.
(d) Jake.

5. With whom is the second-hand bookstore owner in trouble?
(a) The IRS.
(b) His ex-wife.
(c) Some mobsters.
(d) The police.

6. What is it about this village and its inhabitants that makes Roland feel so comfortable?
(a) He has been to the Calla before.
(b) They remind him of his own childhood and where he grew up; he is familiar with the songs and dances of the Calla.
(c) He is comfortable no matter where he goes.
(d) He knows that everything will work out fine.

7. What year did Jake die the first time?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1596.
(d) 1989.

8. What does Jake consider the object he picks up in the vacant lot to be?
(a) An insignificant piece of trash.
(b) An important clue to the location of the Dark Tower.
(c) A useful item that the ka-tet can use later on.
(d) An important clue to defeating the Wolves.

9. At the beginning of Part 2, where do Roland and his ka-tet ride?
(a) Home.
(b) To Candleton.
(c) To Calla Bryn Sturgis.
(d) To Manhattan.

10. Why does Roland feel the need to put his abilities on display for the villagers?
(a) So he can impress the most influential member of the village and convince him that Roland and the ka-tet are who they say they are.
(b) Because the ka-tet needs the practice.
(c) So the villagers can see how talented the ka-tet is.
(d) Because Roland and the others like to show their skills.

11. What is the name of the man who owns the second-hand bookstore?
(a) The Walkin' Dude.
(b) Oy the billy-bumbler.
(c) Calvin Tower.
(d) Susan Delgado.

12. 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.

13. Who are the others that come with the stranger?
(a) Tian and Zalia Jaffords, Ben and Benny Slightman, and Wayne Overholser.
(b) Jack, Wendy, and Tom Gordon.
(c) Mia, Oy, Nort, and Trashcan Man.
(d) Beverly, Sheriff Bannerman, and Johnny.

14. What about the villagers' story is Roland most curious about?
(a) Why the births in Calla Bryn Sturgis are so irregular.
(b) How all sixty of the Wolves could have gray horses to ride.
(c) How helping the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis will help him and his ka-tet find the Dark Tower.
(d) If there are other villages having similar problems.

15. In Part 1, Chapter 7, what is the rose doing?
(a) It is singing.
(b) It is dying.
(c) It is playing sweet music.
(d) It is wilting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the stranger that arrives at the camp?

2. Out of the others that come with the stranger, why does the large landowner dominate the conversation and ask so many questions?

3. If Roland's suspicions about his body are correct, what is he afraid of?

4. In Part 2, Chapter 1, what does Roland make Rosalita promise?

5. What is the community's response to the idea of fighting the Wolves?

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