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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 upcoming event was occupying the time of the director of the Smithsonian?

2. When the cows get near the mesa, what do they do?

3. What does Outland think of the people who built his discovery?

4. Whom is the Professor named after?

5. What does Outland know when he makes his discovery in the mesa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What were the invaders like in ancient times?

10. What does Outland think about after he finds Cliff City?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Did the Professor try to commit suicide?

Essay Topic 3

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

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