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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 the assembled crowd he was mad at the woman who rode in the Blue Streak for a time with him about?
(a) She bargained away all their fuel in a card game.
(b) She drank all his coffee.
(c) She tried to shoot him once.
(d) She never would have sex with him.

2. What troubles Augustus about the picnic in Chapter 57?
(a) The fact that there were guns there.
(b) The Cordon's clumsy killing of a hog.
(c) The fact that Todbaum did not attend.
(d) The paper trash the Cordon left.

3. Why does Todbaum tell Journeyman he thinks the Blue Streak is capable of learning?
(a) It was built by the smartest person in the world.
(b) It is AI.
(c) It has actually spoken to Todbaum.
(d) It is part human.

4. Which two women from Granite Head come to hear Todbaum's stories in Chapter 46?
(a) Sarah and Eden.
(b) Amy and Clara.
(c) Willow and Stacey.
(d) Bennie and Henrietta.

5. What is one rumor about the Cordon in Chapter 52?
(a) That the people were moving away for good.
(b) That it had a lot of fireballs to work with.
(c) That it was planning a sort of surgical strike action against Tinderwick.
(d) That it had guns that worked.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes to the Cordon from Tinderwick with the Limetree son in Chapter 39?

2. What does Edwin Gorse tell Journeyman Tinderwick must do in Chapter 47?

3. What does Journeyman finally ask Maddy directly in Chapter 43?

4. What does Journeyman tell Todbaum he will come back for that night in Chapter 45?

5. What changes in December for Todbaum?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Todbaum's story about Pittsburgh a turning point for him and the people of Tinderwick who come to hear his stories?

2. In Part III, what does Journeyman propose to get to know the woman in the library better and what does he find out about her?

3. Why is Journeyman envious of Jane and Lucius?

4. What does Todbaum reveal to Journeyman and the rest of the Tinderwickians in Part IV that is different from what he has said before about his journeys in the Blue Streak?

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

6. What do the Cordon people ask for during their meeting with Tinderwick in Part III?

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

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

9. What happens to Todbaum's napkin "contract" for Maddy in Part III?

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

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