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

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

3. What upcoming event was occupying the time of the director of the Smithsonian?
(a) The International Exposition in Europe.
(b) The Van Gogh exhibit.
(c) The purchase of a Leonardo for the museum.
(d) The opening of the Indian Museum.

4. How does Outland try to find Blake?
(a) By writing his family.
(b) By contacting the railroad.
(c) By advertising in newspapers.
(d) By calling his friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Blake bought a ticket to?

2. What does Henry call the objects found in Cliff City?

3. How much does the Château d'Yquem cost?

4. To the Professor, what is so beautiful about Outland's accounts of the mesa?

5. Whom does Outland want to visit Cliff City?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Lillian's income mean to the family as the years went by?

5. What does Outland feel a scholar could do that they are unable to do?

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

7. Had Outland lived, what would his life have looked like? Would he have lost his sense of adventure?

8. How does the Professor justify not going to Europe with his wife, daughter, and son-in-law? What is the real reason for not going?

9. What is Blake's mistake about money in the end?

10. Are the clerks at the Indian Commission in Washington truly interested in Cliff City?

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