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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase of Kormentz's keeps echoing in Journeyman's ears?
(a) Who are we?
(b) We lose ourselves.
(c) What are you?
(d) We love ourselves.

2. What does Journeyman think might be underlying Nowlin's "craziness"?
(a) Anger.
(b) Drug addiction.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Loneliness.

3. What food does Mike Raritan make to help sweeten the pot with dealings with the Cordon?
(a) Mackrel-and-potato fritters.
(b) Fresh scones.
(c) Chocolate chip cookies.
(d) Fish stew.

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

5. What does Edwin Gorse tell Journeyman Tinderwick must do in Chapter 47?
(a) Try to find a way to make the guns work again.
(b) Try to store more food for the winter.
(c) Mobilize its resources to defend Todbaum and his machine.
(d) Leave the island immediately.

6. What does Journeyman ask the woman in the library to do in Chapter 41?
(a) Go for a walk.
(b) Come to see Todbaum with him.
(c) Go swimming.
(d) Come to dinner.

7. What does Journeyman think are the only two categories of humans that Todbaum recognizes?
(a) Cooks and Capers.
(b) Punters and yahoos.
(c) Hunters and hunted.
(d) Idiots and Geniuses.

8. Who lives alone in the Grange?
(a) Theodore Nowlin.
(b) Quentin Maslow.
(c) Edwin Gorse.
(d) Herbert Walker.

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

10. What does the Cordon man tell Journeyman to leave for the Cordon that he does not want to leave?
(a) His water.
(b) His entire satchel.
(c) His bicycle.
(d) His clothes.

11. What does Maddy tell Journeyman that the Blue Streak is probably safer than?
(a) Shooting bears.
(b) Camping in the forest.
(c) Swimming in the local quarries.
(d) Running in the shallows of the bay.

12. What does Journeyman feel the Cordon people refuse in their stubborness?
(a) Even Journeyman's curiosity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Any acceptance of responsibility.
(d) Food.

13. What dead creature does Journeyman see near the Blue Streak in Chapter 45?
(a) A deer.
(b) A fish.
(c) A raccoon.
(d) A rabbit.

14. What kind of cult does Todbaum say he encountered in Kansas?
(a) A tree cult.
(b) An egg cult.
(c) A cult surrounding their one leader.
(d) An oyster cult.

15. Who does Journeyman ask Maddy to speak with in Chapter 31?
(a) Eke and the other Cordon man camped out in the Tinderwick woods.
(b) Kormentz.
(c) Astur.
(d) Todbaum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Todbaum tell Journeyman he "plundered" outside of Worcester?

2. What does Kormentz believe the townspeople of Tinderwick have done to him?

3. In Chapter 36, what has Kormentz insisted on doing when Journeyman comes with deliveries?

4. What starts to fail Gorse as he argues with Todbaum in Chapter 58?

5. What do Eke and the other man from the Cordon do near the Blue Streak in Founder's Park while Journeyman watches surreptitiously?

(see the answer keys)

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