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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing Journeyman is an expert in, as explained in Chapter 44?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Wine.
(d) Postapocalyptic and dystopian stories.

2. What does Journeyman consider the Blue Streak and Todbaum's appearance could possibly be a harbinger of?
(a) The return of Journeyman's own self-confidence.
(b) The appearance of the Messiah.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) The end of The Arrest.

3. Who lives alone in the Grange?
(a) Theodore Nowlin.
(b) Herbert Walker.
(c) Edwin Gorse.
(d) Quentin Maslow.

4. In Chapter 45, what does Journeyman think when he sees Todbaum?
(a) Todbuam looks completely rejuvenated.
(b) Todbaum looks high.
(c) Todbaum looks very old and possibly ill.
(d) Todbaum looks like he has gained a lot of weight recently.

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

6. What does Delia Limetree's son ask to do in Chapter 37?
(a) Join the Cordon.
(b) Set sail for Brunswick.
(c) Go to the library.
(d) Have more than his share of food.

7. In Chapter 36, what has Kormentz insisted on doing when Journeyman comes with deliveries?
(a) Reading to Journeyman aloud from his pillow book.
(b) Asking Journeyman to get him fancy pens and paper.
(c) Giving him homemade furniture.
(d) Asking him to ask Maddy to let him back into the community.

8. Which two women from Granite Head come to hear Todbaum's stories in Chapter 46?
(a) Willow and Stacey.
(b) Amy and Clara.
(c) Bennie and Henrietta.
(d) Sarah and Eden.

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

10. What does Kormentz give Journeyman in Chapter 50?
(a) His money.
(b) His saxophone.
(c) His Pillow Book.
(d) His good knives.

11. What does Todbaum tell the assembled crowd he was mad at the woman who rode in the Blue Streak for a time with him about?
(a) She drank all his coffee.
(b) She tried to shoot him once.
(c) She never would have sex with him.
(d) She bargained away all their fuel in a card game.

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

13. What starts to fail Gorse as he argues with Todbaum in Chapter 58?
(a) His courage.
(b) His voice.
(c) His syntax.
(d) His integrity.

14. What dead creature does Journeyman see near the Blue Streak in Chapter 45?
(a) A raccoon.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A fish.
(d) A deer.

15. What does Todbaum tell Journeyman that he and Maddy are destined to do together in Chapter 33?
(a) Jumpstart history.
(b) Build a new farm together.
(c) Have children.
(d) Get married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one specific rumor about Todbaum and the Cordon?

2. What is completely absent from Journeyman's house?

3. What does Journeyman ask the woman in the library to do in Chapter 41?

4. What does Edwin Gorse tell Journeyman Tinderwick must do in Chapter 47?

5. What does Todbaum tell Journeyman he "plundered" outside of Worcester?

(see the answer keys)

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