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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was Outland in school when Lillian began to be jealous of him?
(a) He had graduated.
(b) A junior.
(c) A freshman.
(d) A senior.

2. What does Louie want to do with the furniture in his house before they all leave on their trip?
(a) Give it away to Goodwill.
(b) Give it to Scott and Kathleen.
(c) Give it to the Professor and Lillian.
(d) Donate it to the college.

3. Why does the Professor NOT prepare for the fall school term?
(a) He wants to spend the extra time in his garden.
(b) He does not feel he will be alive long enough to see it.
(c) He is tired and believes he is sick.
(d) He does not need to prepare; he has taught the same course so many times.

4. What does the Professor wish to work on during his summer alone?
(a) More volumes of history.
(b) Tom Outland's diary.
(c) Dr. Crane's lab.
(d) His memoirs.

5. Where did the Professor and Outland plan to travel for their third trip?
(a) To China.
(b) To Ireland.
(c) Paris.
(d) To Mexico.

6. How does the mule die?
(a) It trips and breaks its leg.
(b) It dies in a dust storm.
(c) It is bitten by a snake.
(d) It falls to the bottom of the canyon.

7. Where does Outland hide his diary?
(a) In Henry's knapsack.
(b) In the cabin.
(c) At the Eagle's Nest.
(d) At the bottom of the mesa.

8. In the end, how does the Professor feel about his life?
(a) The memories make him happy.
(b) He is saddened by it.
(c) He sees a new beginning.
(d) He is indifferent to it.

9. Where is Louie traveling with his brother?
(a) To New York for a family reunion.
(b) To Kansas City to meet with the union.
(c) To Dallas to meet with the meat packers.
(d) To Chicago for a meeting.

10. What does Henry think of the bag of tools they find in Cliff City?
(a) He knows that they were cooking tools.
(b) He thinks they were surgery tools.
(c) He believes they were building tools.
(d) He thinks they might be woodworking tools.

11. How much time elapses between the fight with Blake and meeting the Professor?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) One month.
(d) One year.

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

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

14. What is the Professor's real first name?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) George.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Gaylord.

15. Whom does the Indian Commissioner think Outland should see about Cliff City?
(a) The Smithsonian Institution.
(b) The President.
(c) His Senator.
(d) The Indian Commission.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does a person need to get into the poker game?

2. What had Henry done before he worked for Sitwell?

3. What does Outland want to do when he sees the Blue Mesa?

4. What is Virginia Ward's advice for Outland?

5. What does Outland find in the irrigation main in the mesa?

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