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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 can be seen from the window of the study?
(a) The Ohio River.
(b) The ocean.
(c) Lake Michigan.
(d) The tall grasses.

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

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

4. What is Sir Edgar Spilling's specialty in history?
(a) Archeology.
(b) Economics.
(c) Spanish history.
(d) Science.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does St. Peter continue to search for?

2. What does Mrs. St. Peter have under the table that causes her trouble at her dinner with Sir Edgar Spilling?

3. Who was engaged to Tom Outland?

4. Who used to sit in the garden in the summer evenings and talk with the Professor?

5. What was the only thing that Kathleen could really paint?

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