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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Family, Chapter 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tom Outland invent?
(a) A type of car paint.
(b) A way of recording ancient objects.
(c) A rocket booster.
(d) The Outland engine.

2. When Scott and the Professor go swimming, what does Scott confess is bothering him?
(a) That Louie and Rosamond are naming their new house after Tom Outland.
(b) That he is angry that Louie gets so much attention from his mother-in-law.
(c) That he is also going to build a new house.
(d) That Kathleen is unhappy with her sister.

3. What has been the comfort of the Professor's life?
(a) His lab.
(b) His walled-in garden.
(c) His food.
(d) His students.

4. How was the Professor able to build a new house?
(a) With the Oxford prize money he won for writing a series of history books.
(b) With the money he made from Outland.
(c) With his invention of a new motorcar.
(d) With prize money for a book on economics.

5. What puzzles the Professor about Kathleen's talents?
(a) That she does not think she could be a professor.
(b) That she does not think she is remarkable.
(c) That she does not think she can sing.
(d) That she does not think she can make pottery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Professor grow up?

2. Why does Mrs. St. Peter scold her husband the morning after the dinner party?

3. Who shares the study with the Professor?

4. How many evenings a week does the Professor go out with his wife?

5. What does the Professor love to do on hot days?

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