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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 179 - 240).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Journeyman finally ask Maddy directly in Chapter 43?
(a) If she is going to write the book she is always talking about.
(b) If she is thinking of leaving Spodosal.
(c) Whether she will go to see Todbaum.
(d) If they will have enough food for that winter.

2. What does Journeyman hide his disappointment from Maddy about in Chapter 49?
(a) That Maddy seems to like Nowlin better than she likes him.
(b) That Todbaum seems to like Maddy better.
(c) That Maddy has found a new knife.
(d) The fact that Maddy has already met Drenka.

3. What does Journeyman wonder specifically about the lighthouse in Chapter 50?
(a) How tall it will be.
(b) What he is going to contribute to it.
(c) How its light will be powered.
(d) Whose idea it really was.

4. In Chapter 35, what does Journeyman try to think about sometimes, but finds difficult to think about?
(a) His childhood.
(b) The Cordon.
(c) Kormentz's trial.
(d) Religion.

5. What does the woman in the library ask Journeyman for in Chapter 42?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) A new book.
(c) A story.
(d) Cheese.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 23, what kind of person does Journeyman think of himself as?

2. What is Maddy's only luggage in Chapter 22?

3. What had wrecked on Quarry Island some time before the start of the novel?

4. What does Journeyman find himself doing to reconcile the fact of people's aging?

5. In Chapter 29, what does Journeyman ask the woman in the library that she refuses to answer?

(see the answer key)

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