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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. When the Professor's family leaves on their trip abroad, what does the Professor do?
2. How does Outland try to find Blake?
3. Whom does Outland want to visit Cliff City?
4. Where does the Professor travel first with Outland?
5. Where do the Professor and Outland travel the second time?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Outland feel a scholar could do that they are unable to do?
2. 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?
3. What does Outland think about after he finds Cliff City?
4. What does Outland find in the mesa?
5. How does Outland's group know that the ancient city had not been attacked by enemies?
6. What is life like after Henry comes to stay and work with Blake and Outland?
7. As the story shifts to Tom Outland's story, who is the narrator? How does this affect the story?
8. According to the Professor, when did he change from the young Kansas boy to the mature adult?
9. How do Outland and his men keep records as they excavate the ancient Cliff City?
10. What was Blake's personality like? How did this affect how others viewed him?
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 do you think is meant by Kathleen telling Scott that he is the "real one?"
Essay Topic 3
How do the house and the dress forms have personalities? How does the Professor see the house and the dress forms as living, breathing souls that he must be surrounded by?
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