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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Ollie come with Susan to Leadville?
(a) He has taken ill and needs to recover
(b) Her parents have kidnapped him
(c) He has refused to come see his father
(d) Augusta has asked to keep him

2. Oliver is offered a mining job in another country - which one?
(a) Spain
(b) China
(c) Bolivia
(d) Australia

3. What unusual event occurred at New Almaden?
(a) Susan opened a restaurant
(b) Oliver had an affair
(c) Susan went down into the mine
(d) Augusta came to see Susan

4. What does Susan tell Mrs. Elliott that shocks the older woman?
(a) Susan and Oliver are Hindu
(b) Susan is in love with another man
(c) Susan is going to buy the boardinghouse
(d) Susan's income from writing and illustrating is the only money the Ward family has at the moment

5. Rodman is concerned about his father living alone because
(a) Rodman wants to live in Zodiac Cottage by himself
(b) Rodman is romantically interested in Shelley
(c) Rodman is afraid Ada will steal Lyman's money
(d) Lyman is disabled and his caretakers are also elderly

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes an unexpected appearance in Grass Valley?

2. What is Lyman's fear?

3. What is a good description of the Ward home?

4. Where is Oliver's next mining job?

5. What are Susan's hopes about Thomas Hudson?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the trip from Denver to Leadville symbolic of the Wards' marriage?

2. Why are Mrs. Elliott's suggestions so confusing to Susan?

3. What is Susan's state of mind in this chapter?

4. Why doesn't Susan want Oliver to accept the job in Bolivia?

5. How is Susan's transformation into a western woman exemplified in this chapter?

6. Why is Oliver unsuccessful in his attempts to market his invention?

7. What makes Lyman wonder about his grandmother's sexual preferences?

8. Is life harmonious and happy for the Wards in Leadville?

9. Why do Lyman and Al become better friends in the present than they were as children?

10. What is Susan's attitude about her one-room shack in Leadville?

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