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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men find in the Eagle's Nest?
(a) Tanning tools.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Pots and pans.
(d) A body.

2. When Scott gets on the Blue Bird Express, whom does he encounter?
(a) Rosamond.
(b) The Professor.
(c) Lillian.
(d) Blake.

3. What does Outland think of the people who built his discovery?
(a) They were short.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) That they had a feeling for design.
(d) They did not have much technology.

4. What eastern city was Lillian surprised to find out that Outland had been to?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) Washington.
(d) Miami.

5. How much does Blake sell his horse for?
(a) $350.00.
(b) $60.00.
(c) $10.00.
(d) $200.00.

6. When Outland goes to Europe with Father Duchêne, which ship do they sail on?
(a) The Rotterdam.
(b) The Mesopotamia.
(c) The Queen Mary.
(d) The Rochambeau.

7. What does Outland do with the objects he finds in Cliff City?
(a) He gives them to the Mexican woman Blake rooms with.
(b) He transports them by mule to the nearest town.
(c) He numbers them and stores them in the cabin.
(d) He dusts them off and puts them in large canvas bags.

8. What does Henry call the objects found in Cliff City?
(a) Rew-ins.
(b) The last of a generation.
(c) Chinese pieces.
(d) Indian relics.

9. Whom does Outland want to visit Cliff City?
(a) A scientist.
(b) A junkman.
(c) An archaeologist.
(d) An educator.

10. Where does Father Duchêne think Outland should go to tell them about Cliff City?
(a) The Smithsonian Institution.
(b) The Field Museum.
(c) Chicago Institute of the Arts.
(d) The Indian Bureau.

11. When Outland returns from Washington, how long does he stay out on the mesa?
(a) Until the spring.
(b) Until the following summer
(c) Until November.
(d) Until the next snows.

12. What does Outland find in himself on the mesa?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Music.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Loneliness.

13. How old is the Professor at the end of the novel?
(a) 62.
(b) 72.
(c) 82.
(d) 52.

14. When Outland returns to the mesa from Washington, how did he feel about it?
(a) He never wants to leave.
(b) That he is seeing it for the first time.
(c) He hates it.
(d) It makes him lonely.

15. Where does Outland put Blake's money that he won in the poker game?
(a) In his hat.
(b) In his holster.
(c) In his grip.
(d) In the bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Outland not trust as he watches over Blake the night he meets him?

2. Whom does the Representative from Outland's district think he should see about Cliff City?

3. What color is the water in the natural springs in the mesa?

4. After Outland recovers from pneumonia, how does Blake divide the chores?

5. In his summer alone, whom does the Professor get to know again?

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