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

2. Where do Outland and Blake go to join their cattle for the first time?
(a) By the Blue Mesa.
(b) By the Colorado River.
(c) Up the river to the mountains.
(d) Over the plains to Durango.

3. Where does Outland put Blake's money that he won in the poker game?
(a) In his hat.
(b) In the bank.
(c) In his grip.
(d) In his holster.

4. Who is a good friend who supplied men and supplies for the Cliff City project?
(a) Sitwell.
(b) Blake.
(c) Henry.
(d) Bill Hook.

5. Whom does Outland not trust as he watches over Blake the night he meets him?
(a) Barney Shea.
(b) John Rapp.
(c) Jonas Sitwell.
(d) Conductor Willis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time elapses between the fight with Blake and meeting the Professor?

2. How much money does a person need to get into the poker game?

3. When Outland returns from Washington, how long does he stay out on the mesa?

4. Where did the Professor and Outland plan to travel for their third trip?

5. What does Outland find in the irrigation main in the mesa?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the work history of Henry Atkins?

3. What was Blake's hobby? What did he read about?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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