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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Todbaum ask Journeyman to give Maddy in Chapter 33?
(a) A ring.
(b) Money.
(c) An espresso.
(d) A type of contract.
2. Who is the woman Todbaum tells the assembled crowd used to ride with him in the Blue Streak for a while in Chapter 46?
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Sally.
(d) Atlanta.
3. What does Journeyman wonder specifically about the lighthouse in Chapter 50?
(a) How tall it will be.
(b) How its light will be powered.
(c) What he is going to contribute to it.
(d) Whose idea it really was.
4. What does Journeyman tell Todbaum he will come back for that night in Chapter 45?
(a) The liquor.
(b) The coffee.
(c) The apples.
(d) The story.
5. Who does Journeyman ask Maddy to speak with in Chapter 31?
(a) Todbaum.
(b) Astur.
(c) Eke and the other Cordon man camped out in the Tinderwick woods.
(d) Kormentz.
6. What does Journeyman finally ask Maddy directly in Chapter 43?
(a) If they will have enough food for that winter.
(b) If she is going to write the book she is always talking about.
(c) Whether she will go to see Todbaum.
(d) If she is thinking of leaving Spodosal.
7. What is completely absent from Journeyman's house?
(a) Toilets.
(b) Dishes.
(c) Books.
(d) Mirrors.
8. What book does Journeyman find Maddy reading in Chapter 31?
(a) Brave New World.
(b) Earth Abides.
(c) Fahrenheit 451.
(d) Yet Another World.
9. What does Journeyman consider the Blue Streak and Todbaum's appearance could possibly be a harbinger of?
(a) The appearance of the Messiah.
(b) The return of Journeyman's own self-confidence.
(c) The end of The Arrest.
(d) The end of the world.
10. How does the Blue Streak look at night?
(a) It is like a lit television screen, in blue-ish hue.
(b) It is invisible.
(c) It is lit dimly in rainbow colors.
(d) It is dark.
11. In Chapter 45, what does Journeyman think when he sees Todbaum?
(a) Todbaum looks very old and possibly ill.
(b) Todbaum looks high.
(c) Todbaum looks like he has gained a lot of weight recently.
(d) Todbuam looks completely rejuvenated.
12. What does Maddy tell Journeyman that the Blue Streak is probably safer than?
(a) Shooting bears.
(b) Camping in the forest.
(c) Swimming in the local quarries.
(d) Running in the shallows of the bay.
13. What does hearing Maddy's voice call out to him remind him of in Chapter 49?
(a) Their old dog Spike.
(b) Their time playing football together.
(c) Their time in Los Angeles together.
(d) Their childhood summers at the beach.
14. What do Eke and the other man from the Cordon do near the Blue Streak in Founder's Park while Journeyman watches surreptitiously?
(a) Read to each other.
(b) Engage in sex acts.
(c) Swim.
(d) Shoot Todbaum.
15. How does Journeyman feel at seeing all the activity on Quarry Island in Chapter 49?
(a) Happy.
(b) Angry.
(c) Motivated.
(d) Left out.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Todbaum tell Journeyman that the "self" is?
2. What book is Todbaum particularly disdainful of in Chapter 44?
3. Where does Astur want to send Eke and Walt in Chapter 40?
4. Why does Todbaum tell Journeyman he thinks the Blue Streak is capable of learning?
5. What does Kormentz say is Journeyman's principal failing?
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