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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is more common in the Callas than anywhere else?
(a) Babies with black hair and black eyes.
(b) Twin births.
(c) Singleton births.
(d) Babies with blonde hair and green eyes.

2. To whom does Jake take an immediate liking?
(a) Mia.
(b) Benny.
(c) The stranger.
(d) Oy.

3. At the beginning of Part 2, who does Roland urge to speak to the crowd?
(a) Andy.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Oy.
(d) Susannah.

4. Why is the vacant lot important?
(a) Because the mobsters think there is gold and other valuable minerals underneath the soil.
(b) Because Eddie and Jake know it's valuable real estate in the future, and they want to buy it cheap so they can resell it and make a large amount of money.
(c) Because Roland believes that the Dark Tower is built upon it and exists there in the future.
(d) Because on the lot grows a rose that has something to do with the Dark Tower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the community that the Wolves come to each generation?

2. Why does Roland feel the need to put his abilities on display for the villagers?

3. What does Mia do in the night?

4. What does Eddie hear when he and Jake are in the office of the bookstore, after Eddie begins to read the paperwork?

5. What happens to Susannah when she visits the vacant lot?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6, what does the group from the Calla explain to Roland and his ka-tet about the Wolves?

2. Why are the Wolves stealing Calla Bryn Sturgis' children?

3. Why does Roland assign Susannah a role where she is to sit back and observe the strangers from the Calla rather than take an active part in their conversations?

4. How does Jake react to the newcomers?

5. The leader of the mysterious group following the ka-tet approaches the ka-tet and reveals the group's purpose. Who is this group and what is their purpose?

6. When the group arrives back at Father Callahan and company's camp, whom do they all see preparing the meal?

7. Why is Eddie hesitant to get involved with the people from Calla Bryn Sturgis and their troubles with the Wolves?

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

9. The night that the group meets the Calla villagers, the entire ka-tet goes todash to Manhattan. What is different about Susannah there, and why is that important?

10. Why does Roland demonstrate the ka-tet's abilities to the group from the Calla in Part 1, Chapter 6?

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