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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who goes to the Cordon from Tinderwick with the Limetree son in Chapter 39?
(a) Quentin.
(b) Todbaum.
(c) Eke.
(d) Journeyman.

3. What does Kormentz say is Journeyman's principal failing?
(a) How little he grasps the worth of ritual action.
(b) That he still thinks of himself as a writer.
(c) That he still maintains hope of the world going back to the way it was before The Arrest.
(d) How much he eats.

4. What does Edwin Gorse tell Journeyman Tinderwick must do in Chapter 47?
(a) Try to store more food for the winter.
(b) Try to find a way to make the guns work again.
(c) Leave the island immediately.
(d) Mobilize its resources to defend Todbaum and his machine.

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

6. What does Journeyman feel anxious about in Chapter 31?
(a) When or if Maddy will visit Todbaum in Founder's Park.
(b) His boat journey coming up.
(c) His job security.
(d) Running out of food.

7. Who offers to take Delia Limetree's son under his or her wing in Chapter 37?
(a) Eke.
(b) Todbaum.
(c) Carol Leeds.
(d) Auster.

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

9. Who does Journeyman ask Maddy to speak with in Chapter 31?
(a) Eke and the other Cordon man camped out in the Tinderwick woods.
(b) Todbaum.
(c) Astur.
(d) Kormentz.

10. What phrase of Kormentz's keeps echoing in Journeyman's ears?
(a) We love ourselves.
(b) Who are we?
(c) We lose ourselves.
(d) What are you?

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

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

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

14. What book does Journeyman find Maddy reading in Chapter 31?
(a) Yet Another World.
(b) Fahrenheit 451.
(c) Brave New World.
(d) Earth Abides.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following summarizes Todbaum's view of human nature?

3. What troubles Augustus about the picnic in Chapter 57?

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

5. What does Todbaum ask Journeyman to give Maddy in Chapter 33?

(see the answer keys)

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