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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 does Outland do with the objects he finds in Cliff City?

2. What do the men call the discovery they find in Eagle's Nest?

3. When Outland returns to the mesa from Washington, how did he feel about it?

4. Who is a good friend who supplied men and supplies for the Cliff City project?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Are the clerks at the Indian Commission in Washington truly interested in Cliff City?

5. 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?

6. Why is the Professor so tired after his trip with Rosamond? How does Rosamond take advantage of her father?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the Professor's memory of himself as a boy affect him? What is the prevailing emotion that takes over?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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