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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 is the major life-changing event that alters the world in this novel?
(a) The Spinning.
(b) The Arrest.
(c) The Turning.
(d) The Pivoting.

2. What do Jane and Lucius grow?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Lemons.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Mint.

3. Who makes batches of deodorant, tampons, toothpaste, brushes, and floss?
(a) Edwin Gorse.
(b) Needra.
(c) Renate.
(d) Astur.

4. Where did Journeyman and Maddy used to go on summer family vacations?
(a) Hilton Head.
(b) Cape May.
(c) The Gulf Coast in Texas.
(d) Rehoboth Beach.

5. What is the name of Todbaum's and Journeyman's futuristic script?
(a) Real Scriptwriters of Philadelphia.
(b) Yet Another World.
(c) The Plague.
(d) Shakespeare's Real Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What past project of theirs does Todbaum mention to Journeyman in Chapter 18?

2. What movies does Journeyman see in Chapter 7?

3. In Chapter 6, how does the person who has come looking for Journeyman arrive?

4. What does Todbaum say he had in Utah that he loved?

5. Where is Astur originally from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Maddy an expert in?

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

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

6. What is Astur's background?

7. What does Journeyman think of the machine Todbaum arrives to Tinderwick in?

8. Before The Arrest, what did Journeyman do for a living and how did he feel about it?

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?

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