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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. Where does Blake lodge?
(a) With the Rogers family.
(b) With an old Mexican woman.
(c) With Ruby, the owner of the saloon.
(d) With his dad.

2. What does Outland have to clean up after the German man leaves the mesa?
(a) The horse stalls.
(b) The cabin.
(c) The mesa floor.
(d) The ruins.

3. Whom is the Professor named after?
(a) An aunt.
(b) His father.
(c) An uncle.
(d) His grandfather.

4. What does Outland do when he stays out on the mesa alone after his trip to Washington?
(a) He improves his Spanish and reads the 12 books of the Aeneid.
(b) He listens to music and writes poetry.
(c) He records all the objects left over and catalogues them.
(d) He sleeps and rests until his health returns.

5. What happens to Blake after he tells Outland about selling the objects from Cliff City?
(a) He leaves for California.
(b) He disappears.
(c) He returns home.
(d) He goes to war.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Outland want to go into the mesa and begin exploring with supplies?

2. What is one of the biggest cattle companies in New Mexico?

3. What does Outland do with the objects he finds in Cliff City?

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

5. Who is a good friend who supplied men and supplies for the Cliff City project?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the cattle bolt from the mesa? What causes them to do this?

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

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

4. How do Outland and his men keep records as they excavate the ancient Cliff City?

5. How does Outland's group know that the ancient city had not been attacked by enemies?

6. What were the invaders like in ancient times?

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

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

9. When the Professor becomes re-acquainted with his childhood self, what does he think of his adult life?

10. How does Outland react when he hears that Blake has sold the ancient objects from the ruins?

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