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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. When Callahan starts seeing the lost pet posters again, what does he do?
(a) He calls the number on them.
(b) He tears them down.
(c) He moves on.
(d) He covers them up.

2. What was Lady Oriza's fabled accomplishment?
(a) She healed the sick.
(b) She killed her father's murderer by throwing a plate at him and cutting off his head.
(c) She made the blind see.
(d) She grew wheat which fed the original settlers of Calla Bryn Sturgis.

3. What does Jake's journey while asleep in Part 2 tell us about Jake?
(a) That he is the only one who can defeat the Wolves.
(b) That he is able to go todash whenever he wants.
(c) That he is the only member of the ka-tet that the people of the Calla will trust.
(d) That he is a very gifted mind-reader.

4. When Eddie wakes at the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 7, what does he find?
(a) He is in another time and place than when he went to sleep.
(b) The Jafford children staring at him.
(c) Susannah is gone.
(d) Tia and Tian waiting for him to wake.

5. Why is throwing the plates so important?
(a) Because it is a way for Roland and the ka-tet to make up for missing firepower.
(b) Because if women don't continue to throw the plate, all of the Calla's crops will die.
(c) Because it is an ancient tradition that needs to be continued.
(d) Because it gives the women a place in the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake feel guilty about?

2. What is the subject of Roland's discussion with Father Callahan regarding Susannah at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 1?

3. Why does Eddie want to send Father Callahan away?

4. With what were the mobsters threatening Calvin Tower?

5. Where is Callahan when he sees the article in the newspaper about his friend, Rowan Magruder?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Roland and Jake get to the Jafford farm, what does Roland speak to Zalia about?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 7, Jake is able to see into Susannah's dream. What does this tell the audience about Jake?

3. How does Eddie defeat Andy?

4. In Part 3, Chapter 4, what does Eddie ask Father Callahan to do regarding Calvin Tower?

5. How does Jake feel about telling what he saw at the embankment?

6. In Part 2, Chapter 3, and Part 2, Chapter 4, readers begin to learn Father Callahan's history. What is that history?

7. What is the tale of Lady Oriza?

8. When Oy leads Jake from his tent, where does he go and what does he witness?

9. Who are the Sisters of Oriza?

10. What does Jamie Jaffords tell Eddie after Eddie and Susannah have dinner with Tian Jaffords and his family?

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