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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. How many evenings a week does the Professor go out with his wife?

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

3. How many volumes of history did the Professor write?

4. What color is the fur worn by Rosamond that catches her father's eye?

5. What does Mrs. Crane wish to discuss with the Professor when she comes to visit him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of games did Outland play with the girls?

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

4. What is the significance of Louie saying that it is Scott who does not like his dinners?

5. How does Louie describe the country house they are building? What impression does this give the reader about Louie and Rosamond?

6. What does the Professor mean when he tells his wife that they should have never gotten older? How does Lillian respond?

7. Who is Louie and Rosamond's house named after? Why is this such a shock to the family?

8. What is the professor's answer to Scott when he expresses concern about Louie naming his new home "Outland"?

9. Why does the Professor discuss the Cranes with his daughter Rosamond? What is going on between the Cranes and Louie? How does the mention of this name get Rosamond to leve him alone?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the signs of wealth and class described in the novel. How are wealth and class viewed by the characters in the novel? What do you think is the prevailing attitude?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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