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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Other than the language Outland studied with the priest, what other languages did he know?
(a) German and Italian.
(b) Italian and English.
(c) Spanish and English.
(d) Spanish and German.

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

3. How is the attic study heated?
(a) By a fireplace.
(b) By a coal furnace in the room.
(c) By a wood stove.
(d) By central heat.

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

5. Where did Mrs. St Peter think the pot that Outland gave her should reside?
(a) On her mantle.
(b) In her best friend's house.
(c) In a museum.
(d) Back at the mesa.

6. What does the Professor's family think about the bathroom of a house?
(a) That it should be small.
(b) That it should be out of the house.
(c) That it should be on the main floor.
(d) That it should be the most attractive room.

7. What was the only thing that Kathleen could really paint?
(a) Her room
(b) The lake.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her house.

8. Who is the current student who excited the Professor to controversy?
(a) Hazel Grough.
(b) Tod Miller.
(c) Temple Hat.
(d) Joe Green.

9. The first time in the Professor's house, where did Outland fall?
(a) He slipped in the hall.
(b) He tripped up the outside steps.
(c) He fell down the front steps of the house.
(d) He fell on the stairs.

10. Who used to sit in the garden in the summer evenings and talk with the Professor?
(a) Dr. Crane.
(b) Tom Outland.
(c) Augusta.
(d) Lillian.

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

12. What is Dr. Crane's complaint about Outland's work?
(a) He never acquired good laboratory technique.
(b) He was too neat in the lab.
(c) He never wrote anything down.
(d) His ideas were not thought out.

13. What does Rosamond want to build for her father?
(a) A lake house.
(b) A garden.
(c) A new study in the back yard of the new house.
(d) A new house.

14. In what place is Louie going to give his wife her new jewels?
(a) In New York.
(b) In Chicago.
(c) At home.
(d) At their first dinner party at Outland.

15. Why did the Professor grow up Methodist and not Catholic?
(a) There was no Catholic church in the town where he grew up.
(b) There were no Catholics in Kansas.
(c) His father insisted.
(d) His mother gave up the Catholic religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the Professor extend the lease on his house?

2. What did the Professor give to a passing girl from a charity school that got her in trouble?

3. What kind of car do Louie and Rosamond have?

4. How did Outland's father die?

5. What jewels are being given to Rosamond by her husband?

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