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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of hat was Outland wearing when he first met the Professor?

2. Whom does St. Peter continue to search for?

3. How is the attic study heated?

4. What is Louie and Rosamond's chauffeur's name?

5. What is Dr. Crane's complaint about Outland's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Crane feel that she is entitled to some of Outland's money?

2. Would Lillian have been happy with Tom Outland as her son-in-law? Why?

3. What financial offer does Rosamond offer her father? Why is the Professor uncomfortable with the offer?

4. What does the Professor remember most about his time in Paris?

5. What kind of relationship does the Professor have with Augusta?

6. What happened to the girl from the charity school when the Professor tried to give her flowers? What is the significance of this moment?

7. Why does the Professor meet Mrs. Crane in his study? Why is this awkward?

8. What kind of personality does the study have? What are the study and house to the Professor?

9. How does the rivalry between Scott and Louie play out with Louie's entrance to Arts and Letters?

10. Why is the lake so important to the Professor? What does it have to do with his childhood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of travel in the novel to all? What is the value that is received from traveling? What does it mean to each character? Is it a way to make memories or collect objects?

Essay Topic 2

How does the change of narrator mid-way through the novel change the novel? What does it add to the novel? What does it take away?

Essay Topic 3

How does the Professor's memory of himself as a boy affect him? What is the prevailing emotion that takes over?

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