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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 does Blake sell his horse for?

2. When Blake passes out after the poker game, where does the gold lie?

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

4. Where do Outland and Blake go to join their cattle for the first time?

5. What does Outland have to clean up after the German man leaves the mesa?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Outland's group know that the ancient city had not been attacked by enemies?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the family relationships between all the participants in the novel? Who in connected to whom? Which connections are real and which are not?

Essay Topic 2

What memories of Paris stand out for the Professor and why? Why are the memories so painful to him? How can he overcome the pain?

Essay Topic 3

Did the Professor try to commit suicide?

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