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

2. What does Outland find in himself on the mesa?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Music.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Solitude.

3. Where does Blake put the bills that he won in the poker game?
(a) In the lining of his coat.
(b) In his shoe.
(c) Inside the band of his hat.
(d) In his pocket.

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

5. What is the Professor's biggest regret about not going on the third trip with Outland?
(a) He wanted to visit his foster family.
(b) He wanted to see the Eifel Tower with him.
(c) He wanted to find the young girl he tried to give flowers to.
(d) He wanted to see the Luxembourg Gardens with him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Outland describe the people who work in Washington?

3. Where does Outland put Blake's money that he won in the poker game?

4. Where does the Professor travel first with Outland?

5. What does the Professor wish to work on during his summer alone?

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. According to the Professor, when did he change from the young Kansas boy to the mature adult?

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

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

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

6. How did Outland affect the outcome of the Spanish Adventurers' novels?

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

8. What is the work history of Henry Atkins?

9. What does Outland find in the mesa?

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

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