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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 year was Outland in school when Lillian began to be jealous of him?

2. What is the Professor's biggest regret about not going on the third trip with Outland?

3. What is one of the biggest cattle companies in New Mexico?

4. After Outland recovers from pneumonia, how does Blake divide the chores?

5. What eastern city was Lillian surprised to find out that Outland had been to?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Outland lunches with the Director at the Smithsonian, what surprises him?

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

3. What was Blake's hobby? What did he read about?

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

5. Had Outland lived, what would his life have looked like? Would he have lost his sense of adventure?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. What does Outland feel a scholar could do that they are unable to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Tom Outland larger than life? Describe his dress and manor. Is he too good to be true? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What is the Professor's advice to Mrs. Crane? Why does he advise her in the way that he does? Do you think he is concerned with Mrs. Crane or his own family? Why?

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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