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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 commit to memory while on the mesa?

2. What is the big unanswered question for Outland and his group regarding Cliff City?

3. What had Henry done before he worked for Sitwell?

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

5. Whom does Outland not trust as he watches over Blake the night he meets him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What is the significance of the garden? Why is it important that it is walled? What is the space to the Professor? How does he use it?

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