CAT Question of the Day In 1987, King released the second installment, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, in which Roland draws three people from 20th-century United States into his world through magical doors. Grant published The Drawing of the Three with illustrations by Phil Hale in a slightly larger run of 30,000 copies, which was still well below King's typical initial hardcover print-run of a new book. King had believed that the Dark Tower books would only be of interest to a select group of his fans, and he had resisted releasing it on a larger scale. Finally, in the late 1980s, bowing to pressure from his publishers and fans who were searching for the books (at this point fewer than 50,000 of his millions of readers would have been able to own any of the Dark Tower books), King agreed to release The Gunslinger and all subsequent Dark Tower books in trade paperback and mass market formats.
Why did King not release the Dark Tower books in trade paperbacks, initially?
| OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | He did. The original Drawing of the Three had 30,000 copies. | | | 2) | King wasn't expecting the Dark Tower books to do well, so he published only a few copies. | | | 3) | King's fans weren't receptive of the Dark Tower books, so he printed only a few. | | | 4) | King didn't want too many people to read the Dark Tower books. | | | 5) | The Dark Tower books were a departure from King's usual style. |
Tip of the Day Do not leave the questions with lots of calculations towards the end. The probability of making silly calculation errors increases towards the end of the test. Last year's Question of the day (14-Mar-11) The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
Existentialism as a philosophy of human existence was best expressed in the work of the German philosopher Karl Jaspers, who came to philosophy from medicine and psychology. For Jaspers the aim of philosophy is practical; its purpose is the revelation of Being, "the illumination of existence," the answering of the questions of what human beings are and what they can become. This illumination is achieved, and Being is revealed most profoundly, through the experience of "extreme" situations that define the human condition- conflict, guilt, suffering, and death. It is through a confrontation with these extremes that the individual realizes his existential humanity.
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | In Karl Jasper we find the best expression of the philosophy of Existentialism; philosophy for Jasper has the practical purpose of the realization of Being or the "illumination of existence". | | | 2) | In Karl Jasper we find the best expression of the philosophy of Existentialism; existentialism for Jasper has the practical purpose of the realization of Being or the "illumination of existence". | | | 3) | In Karl Jasper we find the best expression of the philosophy of Existentialism; existentialism for Jasper has the practical purpose of the realization of Being through a confrontation with the extremes of human condition. | | | 4) | In Karl Jasper we find the best expression of the philosophy of human existence; existentialism for Jasper has the practical goal of the "illumination of existence" through the experience of extreme situations. | | | 5) | In Karl Jasper we find the best expression of the philosophy of human existence; philosophy for Jasper has the practical purpose of the realization of Being through the experience of extreme situations. |
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