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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What troubles Augustus about the picnic in Chapter 57?
(a) The fact that Todbaum did not attend.
(b) The Cordon's clumsy killing of a hog.
(c) The paper trash the Cordon left.
(d) The fact that there were guns there.

2. In Chapter 35, what does Journeyman try to think about sometimes, but finds difficult to think about?
(a) Religion.
(b) The Cordon.
(c) His childhood.
(d) Kormentz's trial.

3. What do the Cordon ask for in Chapter 37?
(a) For Tinderwick to start giving the Cordon more food in exchange for security.
(b) For Tinderwick to lay down all their guns.
(c) The Blue Streak.
(d) For Tinderwick to turn over all their liquor.

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

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

6. What does the woman in the library finally tell Journeyman in Chapter 42?
(a) Whether she has children.
(b) Her age.
(c) Her name.
(d) Where she is from.

7. What is completely absent from Journeyman's house?
(a) Mirrors.
(b) Dishes.
(c) Books.
(d) Toilets.

8. Who is one of Tinderwick's main representatives at the meeting in Chapter 37?
(a) Harlon Mobetree.
(b) Maddy.
(c) Cynthia Pitchings.
(d) Todbaum.

9. What does Maddy tell Journeyman that Dodie Metzger found in the woods recently?
(a) Matsutake.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Exotic flowers.
(d) A herd of deer.

10. Who tells Journeyman that the Cordon would like a meeting with Tinderwick in Chapter 37?
(a) Todbaum.
(b) Carol Leeds.
(c) Dahlia Freedle.
(d) Jerome Kormentz.

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

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

13. Who does Journeyman ride on Astur's boat with in Chapter 48?
(a) Eke and Walt.
(b) Drenka and Kormentz.
(c) Carol Leeds and Edwin Gorse.
(d) Theodore Nowlin.

14. What does Todbaum ask Journeyman to give Maddy in Chapter 33?
(a) A type of contract.
(b) Money.
(c) An espresso.
(d) A ring.

15. What does Journeyman lie to Todbaum about in Chapter 45?
(a) He says the townspeople hate Todbaum.
(b) He says the townspeople want the Blue Streak for themselves.
(c) He says he gave the napkin to Maddy, but he did not.
(d) He says he can defend the colony himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is one of Todbaum's most loyal listeners?

3. 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?

4. What kind of cult does Todbaum say he encountered in Kansas?

5. What does Journeyman think are the only two categories of humans that Todbaum recognizes?

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