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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Crane use in the lab to light his work in the evening?
(a) An unshaded electric bulb of high power.
(b) Candlelight.
(c) Flashlights.
(d) Florescent lights.

2. Who was engaged to Tom Outland?
(a) Kathleen.
(b) Lillian.
(c) Rosamond.
(d) Augusta.

3. Where does Dr. Crane work on the campus?
(a) The English building.
(b) The auto body shop.
(c) The Administration building.
(d) The Physics laboratory.

4. 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.

5. What does Louie arrange for the Professor and Lillian while they are in Chicago?
(a) To swim in the lake.
(b) To stay at a nice hotel and attend the opera.
(c) To eat at a very expensive restaurant.
(d) To be driven by a private car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Louie announce that he is taking his wife and his in-laws for a vacation?

2. Where does Mrs. Crane sit when she comes to visit the Professor in his study?

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

4. What is Sir Edgar Spilling's specialty in history?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Louie describe the country house they are building? What impression does this give the reader about Louie and Rosamond?

2. What kind of personality does the study have? What are the study and house to the Professor?

3. Why did Lillian refuse to help Augusta out of her financial problems?

4. How does the Professor see his wife and daughters? How does he describe them? Is it a flattering description?

5. How might Outland sound imaginary to readers?

6. Would Lillian have been happy with Tom Outland as her son-in-law? Why?

7. Why does it surprise the Professor that his daughter, Kathleen, does not find herself remarkable? Does he feel that she has wasted her life? How?

8. What does the Professor mean when he tells his wife that they should have never gotten older? How does Lillian respond?

9. What happened to the girl from the charity school when the Professor tried to give her flowers? What is the significance of this moment?

10. Describe the dress forms as characters seen by the Professor.

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