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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louie's brother do for a living?
(a) He is a garment manufacturer.
(b) He is engaged in the silk trade.
(c) He is an attorney.
(d) He is a fur trader.

2. How does Augusta lose money?
(a) By giving her attorney money.
(b) By investing in Outland's engine.
(c) By investing in the Kinkoo Copper Company.
(d) By giving her brother money.

3. How many evenings a week does the Professor go out with his wife?
(a) One evening.
(b) Three evenings.
(c) Four evenings.
(d) Two evenings.

4. What has been the comfort of the Professor's life?
(a) His lab.
(b) His students.
(c) His food.
(d) His walled-in garden.

5. When Scott runs into Lillian on the campus, what do they do together?
(a) They wait for the professor outside.
(b) They lunch together on the lawn.
(c) They sneak into the Professor's lecture to listen.
(d) They laugh at passing people.

6. What does Mrs. St. Peter have under the table that causes her trouble at her dinner with Sir Edgar Spilling?
(a) A begging dog.
(b) An electric bell to call the servants.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A loose floor board.

7. What does Dr. Crane use in the lab to light his work in the evening?
(a) Flashlights.
(b) An unshaded electric bulb of high power.
(c) Florescent lights.
(d) Candlelight.

8. What does Rosamond want to build for her father?
(a) A new house.
(b) A lake house.
(c) A garden.
(d) A new study in the back yard of the new house.

9. When Scott and the Professor go swimming, what does Scott confess is bothering him?
(a) That Louie and Rosamond are naming their new house after Tom Outland.
(b) That he is angry that Louie gets so much attention from his mother-in-law.
(c) That Kathleen is unhappy with her sister.
(d) That he is also going to build a new house.

10. What is Louie and Rosamond's chauffeur's name?
(a) Ted.
(b) John.
(c) Albert.
(d) Ned.

11. What did the Professor give to a passing girl from a charity school that got her in trouble?
(a) Dahlias.
(b) A book.
(c) A ring.
(d) A lecture.

12. What has the Professor just done at the opening of the novel?
(a) Married.
(b) Moved to a new house.
(c) Started a new job.
(d) Divorced his wife.

13. Who, according to Outland, made the best Indian pottery?
(a) The cliff-dwellers.
(b) The Navahos.
(c) The Kiowa.
(d) The Hopis.

14. What can be seen from the window of the study?
(a) The tall grasses.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The Ohio River.
(d) Lake Michigan.

15. What prestigious group is Louie trying to get into at the university?
(a) Arts and Letters.
(b) Phi Kappa Alpha.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) The University Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many volumes of history did the Professor write?

2. What was the only thing that Kathleen could really paint?

3. What does Kathleen notice in her father's study that belonged to Outland?

4. What does Dr. Crane wear on his feet in the lab when working?

5. What did the Professor's wife and daughters do each summer?

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