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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 Journeyman tell Astur is worrying him in Chapter 24?
(a) That they are running out of food.
(b) That the Cordon are showing signs of heavy fighting.
(c) That Todbaum might want to get back together with Maddy.
(d) That Todbaum might want to kill him.

2. In Chapter 6, who does the Cordon tell Journeyman has come asking for him?
(a) Edwin Gorse.
(b) Maddy.
(c) Peter Todbaum.
(d) Nedra.

3. 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 mother, Eleanor.
(c) His brother, Richard.
(d) A woman named Pittsburgh.

4. What movies does Journeyman see in Chapter 7?
(a) Bridesmaids and The Secret Life of Pets.
(b) Back to the Future and Indiana Jones.
(c) The Impossible and The Godfather III.
(d) Raising Cain and Unforgiven.

5. In Chapter 21, where does Astur tell Journeyman to find Maddy?
(a) The butcher shop.
(b) The Grange Hall.
(c) Quarry Island.
(d) The library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Astur really good at?

2. What is Journeyman's nickname?

3. In Chapter 29, what does Journeyman ask the woman in the library that she refuses to answer?

4. What birds had lately thrived in Tinderwick?

5. What do the Cordon use for transport?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of relationship did Journeyman and Todbaum have during the period when they lived together at the Starlet apartments?

3. Why does Maddy get so angry with Journeyman several months after The Arrest, as described in the section "Loss"?

4. What is Maddy an expert in?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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