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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 is the Professor's real first name?

2. To the Professor, what is so beautiful about Outland's accounts of the mesa?

3. Why is the young Frenchman in Washington at the same time as Outland?

4. What does Outland do with the objects he finds in Cliff City?

5. What kind of bedroom set does Rosamond want for her country house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Blake's mistake about money in the end?

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

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

4. What does Outland find in the mesa?

5. Are the clerks at the Indian Commission in Washington truly interested in Cliff City?

6. What does the mesa come to mean for Outland?

7. How does Outland react when he hears that Blake has sold the ancient objects from the ruins?

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

9. What was Blake's personality like? How did this affect how others viewed him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do the Professor and Lillian still love each other? Explain and support your argument with examples from the text.,

Essay Topic 2

What do you think is meant by Kathleen telling Scott that he is the "real one?"

Essay Topic 3

Did the Professor try to commit suicide?

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