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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7, Chapter 6 | Book 7, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ollie in this chapter?
(a) He gets a horse
(b) He becomes ill again
(c) He is bitten by a rattlesnake
(d) He has a birthday

2. What does Susan encourage Oliver to do instead of moving their family to another country?
(a) Continue trying to invent hydraulic cement
(b) Become a salesman for Sears
(c) Become a hotel manager
(d) Become a writer like her

3. Who is charged with the care of Pricey after his injury?
(a) Susan
(b) Frank
(c) Lizzie
(d) Ollie

4. Where do the Wards go after New Almaden?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Santa Cruz, California, to live at Mrs. Elliott's boarding house while Oliver looks for another job
(c) New York City, New York
(d) Milton, New York

5. Why does Lyman call himself a "man of stone"?
(a) He is mute.
(b) Because he is physically unable to move his head from side to side.
(c) He is taking steroids
(d) His family name is Stone

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is progress stopped in the Argentina mine?

2. How does Lyman's wife tell him she is leaving him for his surgeon?

3. When they arrive at the cabin, where is Pricey?

4. Lyman is thinking about his wife in this chapter. What is her name?

5. Who makes an unexpected appearance in Grass Valley?

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