View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Cordon use for transport?

2. What is another term for the machine Todbaum is piloting?

3. Where does Theodore Nowlin want to try to sail to?

4. Who makes batches of deodorant, tampons, toothpaste, brushes, and floss?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the result of The Arrest?

5. How did Journeyman come to be a part of the community in Tinderwick?

6. What is Maddy an expert in?

7. What idea does Maddy contribute to the script for Yet Another World?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the Lake of Tiredness so named, and what do you think the Lake of Tiredness - and its one resident, Jerome Kormentz, symbolize? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What does Journeyman's and Todbaum's relationship seem to be based upon? Why do you think Journeyman goes back to work for Todbaum, even after what happens between Todbaum and Maddy? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What questions or provocations do you think Lethem is trying to induce in the mind of the reader regarding the topic of technology, and of human dependency on technology in the modern era? Write an essay explaining your answers.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 791 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample