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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kormentz calling his book?

2. What is the name of the farm Maddy helped found?

3. Where did Journeyman and Maddy used to go on summer family vacations?

4. What does Journeyman do in Tinderwick?

5. What does Founder's Park overlook?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Todbaum and Maddy when Maddy visits Journeyman in Los Angeles?

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

3. What is Astur's background?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Journeyman feel about Astur, Maddy's partner?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edwin Gorse takes a stand in the later parts of this novel, ultimately dying in the name of a set of beliefs. What principles, ethics, morals, or other beliefs do you think Gorse believed himself to be dying for, and how does Gorse's infatuation with Todbaum inform his beliefs right before his death? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay analyzing Lethem's treatment of the themes of aggression, bullying, and violence, especially as they relate to the relationship between the Cordon and the community of Tinderwick.

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