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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What does Todbaum tell Journeyman that the "self" is?
(a) A soul.
(b) A piece of art.
(c) A shuck.
(d) A story one tells oneself.

4. What kind of nap does Journeyman take in Chapter 34?
(a) A cat nap.
(b) A disco nap.
(c) A flying nap/
(d) A dirt nap.

5. What changes in December for Todbaum?
(a) His coffee maker breaks.
(b) His audience shrinks.
(c) He feels really ill.
(d) The people send him less food.

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

7. 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) Sally.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Jennifer.

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

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

10. 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 bargained away all their fuel in a card game.
(c) She never would have sex with him.
(d) She tried to shoot him once.

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

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

13. What book is Todbaum particularly disdainful of in Chapter 44?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) The Road.
(c) The Highway.
(d) Tennenbaum.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Journeyman feel anxious about in Chapter 31?

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

4. How does the Blue Streak look at night?

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

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