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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 does Todbaum tell Journeyman he did for the first three years of The Arrest?
(a) Wandered on foot all over California.
(b) Tried to become a professor on the West Coast in whatever was left of the higher education establishment.
(c) Went to find his mother in New York City.
(d) Survived in Malibu with other very wealthy people by using a private security force and barricading themselves in a compound.

2. Who is the only other person who Todbaum says was ever in his vessel with him on his travels?
(a) A man named Harvey.
(b) His brother, Richard.
(c) A woman named Pittsburgh.
(d) His mother, Eleanor.

3. What is one piece of physical proof that Todbaum had once been attacked in his vehicle?
(a) A bullet lodged in the windshield.
(b) The missing windshield.
(c) The missing gas tank.
(d) A crack in the door.

4. What is another term for the machine Todbaum is piloting?
(a) The Fomenter.
(b) The Supercar.
(c) The WonderRocket.
(d) The Headwreck.

5. In Chapter 23, what kind of person does Journeyman think of himself as?
(a) A bad person.
(b) A timid person.
(c) A middle person.
(d) A kind person.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 29, where does the new woman who comes to town in a boat set up her residence?

2. Who is the only other person the person who has come looking for Journeyman has told the Cordon he wants to talk to?

3. What does Journeyman find himself doing to reconcile the fact of people's aging?

4. What past project of theirs does Todbaum mention to Journeyman in Chapter 18?

5. What do the Cordon and the Tinderwick communities exchange?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eke tell Journeyman in the section titled An Old Friend that absolutely shocks Journeyman?

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

3. What is Maddy an expert in?

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

5. What was the result of The Arrest?

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

7. Why do the residents of Tinderwick mostly call Journeyman "Sandy"?

8. Why do the people of Tinderwick gather around Todbaum's machine, apart from the free coffee he distributes?

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

10. In Part II, how did Maddy feel about what happened between her and Todbaum at the Starlet apartments all those years past?

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