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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maddy try to do when she visits the Blue Streak?
(a) Disable the Blue Streak.
(b) Sing to Todbaum.
(c) Plant a bomb on The Blue Streak.
(d) Open Todbaum's hatch with tools.

2. Who does Journeyman intend to visit in Chapter 40?
(a) Theodore Nowlin.
(b) The woman in the library.
(c) Kormentz.
(d) Edwin Gorse.

3. How does Journeyman feel at seeing all the activity on Quarry Island in Chapter 49?
(a) Angry.
(b) Happy.
(c) Motivated.
(d) Left out.

4. What do Eke and the other man from the Cordon do near the Blue Streak in Founder's Park while Journeyman watches surreptitiously?
(a) Engage in sex acts.
(b) Shoot Todbaum.
(c) Read to each other.
(d) Swim.

5. Who are the representatives at the meeting in Chapter 37 from Granite Head?
(a) Eugene and Paul.
(b) Mark and Ella.
(c) Wayne and Crowley.
(d) Farrow and Harley.

6. What does Todbaum say the woman who used to ride with him in the Blue Streak really wanted?
(a) To take him home to her parents.
(b) To steal the machine from him.
(c) To have him tell her stories.
(d) To have sex with him.

7. What kind of cult does Todbaum say he encountered in Kansas?
(a) A tree cult.
(b) A cult surrounding their one leader.
(c) An egg cult.
(d) An oyster cult.

8. What does Journeyman tell Todbaum he will come back for that night in Chapter 45?
(a) The apples.
(b) The coffee.
(c) The story.
(d) The liquor.

9. How does Quentin Maslow come to live in Tinderwick?
(a) It was always his family home.
(b) He was a houseguest there when The Arrest happened.
(c) It was where his late wife was from.
(d) It was where he visited his adult children in the winter.

10. What does hearing Maddy's voice call out to him remind him of in Chapter 49?
(a) Their childhood summers at the beach.
(b) Their time playing football together.
(c) Their time in Los Angeles together.
(d) Their old dog Spike.

11. What does Journeyman feel the Cordon people refuse in their stubborness?
(a) Food.
(b) Any acceptance of responsibility.
(c) Even Journeyman's curiosity.
(d) Religion.

12. Who is set to accompany Todbaum in his next journey in the Blue Streak?
(a) Nowlin.
(b) Maddy.
(c) Gorse.
(d) Astur.

13. What does Journeyman think are the only two categories of humans that Todbaum recognizes?
(a) Cooks and Capers.
(b) Idiots and Geniuses.
(c) Punters and yahoos.
(d) Hunters and hunted.

14. Who does Journeyman try to convince to come to Quarry Island with him in Chapter 56?
(a) Astur.
(b) Nowlin.
(c) Drenka.
(d) Maddy.

15. Where does Astur want to send Eke and Walt in Chapter 40?
(a) Quarry Island.
(b) Granite Head.
(c) The Cordon.
(d) Brunswick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voice does Journeyman think Todbaum is imitating in Chapter 32?

2. What does Kormentz say is Journeyman's principal failing?

3. Who is one of Tinderwick's main representatives at the meeting in Chapter 37?

4. What starts to fail Gorse as he argues with Todbaum in Chapter 58?

5. What does Todbaum tell Journeyman that the "self" is?

(see the answer keys)

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