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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 do Eke and the other man from the Cordon do near the Blue Streak in Founder's Park while Journeyman watches surreptitiously?
(a) Swim.
(b) Engage in sex acts.
(c) Shoot Todbaum.
(d) Read to each other.

2. How does Quentin Maslow come to live in Tinderwick?
(a) It was always his family home.
(b) It was where his late wife was from.
(c) He was a houseguest there when The Arrest happened.
(d) It was where he visited his adult children in the winter.

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

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

5. What remains in Journeyman's pocket in Chapter 34, not delivered to its intended recipient?
(a) A candy cane.
(b) A piece of cheese.
(c) The napkin from Todbaum to Maddy.
(d) A key.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hearing Maddy's voice call out to him remind him of in Chapter 49?

2. Who is the woman Todbaum tells the assembled crowd used to ride with him in the Blue Streak for a while in Chapter 46?

3. What does Journeyman think might be underlying Nowlin's "craziness"?

4. What does Maddy tell Journeyman that Dodie Metzger found in the woods recently?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What odd habit did Todbaum used to have when scouring other books for ideas for dystopian tales?

2. What does Todbaum ask Journeyman to give to Maddy for him in Part II?

3. Who does Journeyman try to convince to come to Quarry Island with him in Part IV, and what is this person's reaction to his entreaties?

4. What does Journeyman tell Maddy in the section By the Time Maddy Went to Founder's Park that unsettles him?

5. What does Journeyman observe the two Cordon men doing who are camped out at the edge of Founder's Park in Part III?

6. Why does Kormentz tell Journeyman to take all his writings with him in Part IV?

7. Why is Delia Limetree upset during the meeting with the Cordon in Part III?

8. Why does it seem that Edwin Gorse plans to stay loyal to Todbaum to the end?

9. When did Journeyman first realize Maddy was a better swimmer than he was, and why does he think of that in Part IV?

10. What does Kormentz begin doing in Part III when Journeyman brings his deliveries that Journeyman hates?

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