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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of work did Journeyman and Todbaum once collaborate on?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Scriptwriting.
(c) Landscaping.
(d) Accounting.

2. What state does Journeyman live in?
(a) Maine.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Pennsylvania.

3. In Chapter 1, what does the warning sign make Journeyman think about?
(a) His old house.
(b) Forests.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Lobsters.

4. What birds had lately thrived in Tinderwick?
(a) Condors.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Wild turkeys.
(d) Chickens.

5. Why does Journeyman suspect Todbaum was able to survive the Cordon?
(a) He had guns that still worked.
(b) The Blue Streak was strong enough.
(c) He was strong enough to physically fight the Cordon.
(d) He was smart enough to evade the Cordon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Journeyman take Maddy in Chapter 22?

2. In Chapter 6, which representative from the Cordon meets Journeyman on the road?

3. What do the Cordon use for transport?

4. What was Kormentz's crime?

5. What is Kormentz calling his book?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what sense does Journeyman think of himself as a perpetual sort of middle-man?

2. What does the warning sign in the section Frost Heaves say, and what association does the narrator make with the sign?

3. Before The Arrest, what did Journeyman do for a living and how did he feel about it?

4. What is the Tinderwick relationship with the Cordon?

5. Why has Jerome Kormentz been exiled by the townspeople and where does he live?

6. What does Journeyman think of the machine Todbaum arrives to Tinderwick in?

7. In what sense do Journeyman's rounds of food delivery expand in Part II?

8. What is "time averaging" as Journeyman practices it?

9. What does Todbaum say about Tinderwick and its environs in the section titled Island and Lighthouse that unsettles Journeyman?

10. What part of the Blue Streak is particularly popular with the townspeople of Tinderwick, including, grudgingly, Journeyman?

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