Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. To the Professor, what is so beautiful about Outland's accounts of the mesa?
2. When Outland returns to the mesa from Washington, how did he feel about it?
3. Where had Blake bought a ticket to?
4. Why does the Professor NOT prepare for the fall school term?
5. Where does Father Duchêne think Outland should go to tell them about Cliff City?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is life like after Henry comes to stay and work with Blake and Outland?
2. When the Professor becomes re-acquainted with his childhood self, what does he think of his adult life?
3. As the story shifts to Tom Outland's story, who is the narrator? How does this affect the story?
4. What was Blake's personality like? How did this affect how others viewed him?
5. What does the mesa come to mean for Outland?
6. 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?
7. When Outland lunches with the Director at the Smithsonian, what surprises him?
8. What is Blake's mistake about money in the end?
9. How did Outland affect the outcome of the Spanish Adventurers' novels?
10. Why is the Professor so tired after his trip with Rosamond? How does Rosamond take advantage of her father?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why did the Father believe the cliff dwellers were super-human? Give examples from the novel to support Father Duchêne's beliefs.
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of travel in the novel to all? What is the value that is received from traveling? What does it mean to each character? Is it a way to make memories or collect objects?
Essay Topic 3
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?
|
This section contains 940 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
