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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 4 | Book 4, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the weather like on the trip to New Almaden?
(a) Icy and cold
(b) pleasantly warm
(c) Cool and breezy
(d) Hot and dusty

2. What is the understanding between Oliver and Susan that develops during their five year correspondence?
(a) That Susan's family will finance Oliver's projects
(b) That Oliver will be the best man at Susan's wedding to Thomas
(c) That Susan will draw Oliver's likeness for his personal stationery
(d) That Susan will become Oliver's wife

3. What is the difference between Leadville and New Almaden?
(a) Leadville is smaller
(b) Leadville is in the United States
(c) New Almaden is nearer to a big city
(d) Leadville is a growing mining town with visitors from all over the world

4. What are Susan's hopes about Thomas Hudson?
(a) That he will move west
(b) That he will ask her to marry him, or at least stay single so she, Thomas, and Augusta will be an eternal threesome.
(c) That he will purchase a horse for her
(d) That he will buy her family's home so she can move the entire family west

5. Why didn't Oliver send the train fare for his wife and her maid?
(a) He forgot
(b) He did send it, but it got lost in the mail
(c) He did not have the money to send
(d) He gambled away the money

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?

2. Why is Susan angry at Oliver?

3. What does Lyman consider to be the only intrusion to the routine of his days in Grass Valley?

4. Who meets her train when she arrives at her destination?

5. Why does Lyman begin fictionalizing his grandparents' lives in a novel?

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