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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 much money does a person need to get into the poker game?

2. Where does the Professor travel first with Outland?

3. What is the Professor's real first name?

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

5. Who is the director of the Smithsonian?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the work history of Henry Atkins?

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

6. How do Outland and his men keep records as they excavate the ancient Cliff City?

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. What does the mesa come to mean for Outland?

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

10. What does Outland find in the mesa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Should Dr. Crane get money for helping Outland? How much help do you think he helped? How much was his contribution?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the signs of wealth and class described in the novel. How are wealth and class viewed by the characters in the novel? What do you think is the prevailing attitude?

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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