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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 does the Professor get out of vacationing with his daughter and son-in-law?

2. Whom does the Indian Commissioner think Outland should see about Cliff City?

3. What is Virginia Ward's advice for Outland?

4. When the cows get near the mesa, what do they do?

5. According to Outland's diary, where is the poker game going on in town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Outland's group know that the ancient city had not been attacked by enemies?

3. What does Outland find in the mesa?

4. According to the Professor, when did he change from the young Kansas boy to the mature adult?

5. As the story shifts to Tom Outland's story, who is the narrator? How does this affect the story?

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

7. 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?

8. How does the mesa "come together" for Outland on his return from Washington?

9. Why do the cattle bolt from the mesa? What causes them to do this?

10. How did Outland affect the outcome of the Spanish Adventurers' novels?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What two personalities does Tom Outland have? What is the difference between the real Outland and the one in every one's memory?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Why did the Father believe the cliff dwellers were super-human? Give examples from the novel to support Father Duchêne's beliefs.

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