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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 rocket booster.
(b) A type of car paint.
(c) The Outland engine.
(d) A way of recording ancient objects.

2. What does the Professor love to do on hot days?
(a) Be in his study.
(b) Sit in his garden.
(c) Go to the new house.
(d) Swim in the lake.

3. What has the Professor just done at the opening of the novel?
(a) Moved to a new house.
(b) Married.
(c) Started a new job.
(d) Divorced his wife.

4. Why does Rosamond feel guilty about having Tom Outland's money?
(a) Because she is married.
(b) Because she has spent all the money.
(c) Because she never loved him.
(d) Because she does not understand what he invented.

5. Why does Mrs. St. Peter scold her husband the morning after the dinner party?
(a) For tripping down the stairs.
(b) For slurping his soup.
(c) For being ungracious.
(d) For burping at the dinner table.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Augusta appear for work at the beginning of the novel?

3. Other than the editorials, what does Scott write daily for the paper?

4. Where did the Professor grow up?

5. What are Louie and Rosamond calling their new home?

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