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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 does not need to prepare; he has taught the same course so many times.
(c) He does not feel he will be alive long enough to see it.
(d) He is tired and believes he is sick.

2. Whom does the Representative from Outland's district think he should see about Cliff City?
(a) His Congressman.
(b) The President.
(c) The Indian Commission.
(d) His Senator.

3. What is one of the biggest cattle companies in New Mexico?
(a) The Rio Grande Cattle Company.
(b) The Rogers Cattle Company.
(c) The Sitwell Cattle Company.
(d) The Blue Mesa Cattle Company.

4. 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.

5. When the cows get near the mesa, what do they do?
(a) They group together and will not move.
(b) They lay down.
(c) They bolt.
(d) They want water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Outland in school when Lillian began to be jealous of him?

2. Whom does Outland want to visit Cliff City?

3. What is the Professor's real first name?

4. Where is the cabin that Outland and Blake live in while working for Sitwell?

5. After Outland recovers from pneumonia, how does Blake divide the chores?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. 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?

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

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

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

8. What does Outland find in the mesa?

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

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

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