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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of town did the town Journeyman is in used to be before The Arrest?
(a) A tinder town.
(b) A dancing town.
(c) A lobster town.
(d) A resort town.

2. What is another term for the machine Todbaum is piloting?
(a) The Headwreck.
(b) The Fomenter.
(c) The WonderRocket.
(d) The Supercar.

3. In Chapter 1, what does the warning sign make Journeyman think about?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) His old house.
(c) Lobsters.
(d) Forests.

4. How had Maddy's nature always struck Journeyman?
(a) Cheerful.
(b) Dark.
(c) Open-minded.
(d) Reticent.

5. In Chapter 1, what does the sign warn visitors on the road about?
(a) Asteroids.
(b) Moose.
(c) Deer.
(d) Frost heaves.

6. What does Journeyman do in Tinderwick?
(a) He is a carpenter.
(b) He is a butcher's assistant.
(c) He is a librarian.
(d) He is a candlemaker.

7. What does Todbaum call the machine he comes to Tinderwick in?
(a) The Blue Streak.
(b) The Slog.
(c) The Tender Heart.
(d) The Rocket.

8. Who is the only other person who Todbaum says was ever in his vessel with him on his travels?
(a) His mother, Eleanor.
(b) A woman named Pittsburgh.
(c) His brother, Richard.
(d) A man named Harvey.

9. Where does Journeyman steer Todbaum and his machine?
(a) The West Shore.
(b) The library.
(c) Founder's Park.
(d) The East Shore.

10. Who is the butcher in Tinderwick?
(a) Jerome Kormentz.
(b) Edwin Gorse.
(c) Maddy Duplessis.
(d) Augustus Cordell.

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

12. What kind of work did Journeyman and Todbaum once collaborate on?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Landscaping.
(c) Surgery.
(d) Scriptwriting.

13. What was different about the last flight Journeyman ever took?
(a) It was half-full.
(b) The co-pilot took over because the pilot had a medical emergency.
(c) It was packed to capacity.
(d) It made an emergency landing.

14. In Chapter 29, where does the new woman who comes to town in a boat set up her residence?
(a) Edwin's mansion.
(b) The Lake of Tiredness.
(c) The library.
(d) The butcher shop.

15. What past project of theirs does Todbaum mention to Journeyman in Chapter 18?
(a) Yet Another World.
(b) Beholden.
(c) Net Potential.
(d) The Coven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What project does Journeyman tell Todbaum about in Chapter 17 that the Tinderwickians want to erect?

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

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

4. What does Maddy do to Todbaum that surprises him in Chapter 19?

5. Who is the only other person the person who has come looking for Journeyman has told the Cordon he wants to talk to?

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