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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 does Louie's brother do for a living?

2. What does Mrs. Crane think of Louie?

3. What does Scott wonder about concerning the bracelet?

4. What puzzles the Professor about Kathleen's talents?

5. Why does Mrs. St. Peter scold her husband the morning after the dinner party?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Professor see his wife and daughters? How does he describe them? Is it a flattering description?

2. What does Mrs. Crane mean when she says, "There are some things the law doesn't cover?" How much did Crane help Outland?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. How might Outland sound imaginary to readers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What does Lillian mean when she says, "The Oriental peoples didn't have an Age of Chivalry. They didn't need one?"

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