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

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

3. How does Outland get to the other side of the river to get to the mesa?
(a) He builds a ladder to climb to a high entrance.
(b) He swims.
(c) He rides into the water on his horse.
(d) He finds an entrance up high and climbs to it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry think of the bag of tools they find in Cliff City?

2. What does Outland find in himself on the mesa?

3. Who is the director of the Smithsonian?

4. What does Outland commit to memory while on the mesa?

5. What does Outland think of the people who built his discovery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the protocol for men coming in from working on the railroad? What did Rodney Blake do? How did others view his appearance?

2. What does Outland think about after he finds Cliff City?

3. When the Professor thinks about Euripides, he thinks that maybe he lived in a cave because he had observed women so closely all his life. What does the Professor mean by this?

4. What is life like after Henry comes to stay and work with Blake and Outland?

5. What does the mesa come to mean for Outland?

6. What was Blake's personality like? How did this affect how others viewed him?

7. When Outland lunches with the Director at the Smithsonian, what surprises him?

8. As the story shifts to Tom Outland's story, who is the narrator? How does this affect the story?

9. When Outland returns to the mesa after Washington, how does he see the sunset?

10. What does Outland find in the mesa?

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