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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 61).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the major life-changing event that alters the world in this novel?
(a) The Pivoting.
(b) The Spinning.
(c) The Turning.
(d) The Arrest.

2. What does Todbaum call Journeyman?
(a) Journeyman.
(b) Rick.
(c) Sandman.
(d) Alex.

3. What is the name of the farm Maddy helped found?
(a) Blue Rind Farms.
(b) Granite Head.
(c) The Cordon.
(d) Spodosal.

4. What does Journeyman find himself doing to reconcile the fact of people's aging?
(a) Time averaging.
(b) Forgetting how old people are.
(c) Using photoshop to make people look younger on websites.
(d) Not using a calendar any longer.

5. What does Todbaum tell Journeyman he did for the first three years of The Arrest?
(a) Went to find his mother in New York City.
(b) Wandered on foot all over California.
(c) Survived in Malibu with other very wealthy people by using a private security force and barricading themselves in a compound.
(d) Tried to become a professor on the West Coast in whatever was left of the higher education establishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What institute of higher education did both Journeyman and Todbaum attend?

2. Who is the only other person who Todbaum says was ever in his vessel with him on his travels?

3. What is the name of Todbaum's and Journeyman's futuristic script?

4. Where did Journeyman and Maddy used to go on summer family vacations?

5. What is Journeyman's nickname?

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