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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. Where is the cabin that Outland and Blake live in while working for Sitwell?

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

3. How does the mule die?

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

5. Whom does Outland not trust as he watches over Blake the night he meets him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When Outland returns to the mesa after Washington, how does he see the sunset?

4. What is the work history of Henry Atkins?

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

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

7. What is life like after Henry comes to stay and work with Blake and Outland?

8. What does Outland find in the mesa?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

In the end, what was the importance of the mesa for Outland? What did Outland find in his own soul that connected him to the mesa? Explain.

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