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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Chapter 2 | Book 5, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a good description of the Ward home?
(a) Wide veranda, clean and comfortable house
(b) Tumble down shack
(c) A section of a boardinghouse
(d) House trailer

2. What criticism does Shelley offer about Lyman's writing?
(a) He uses too many big words
(b) He is not descriptive enough about scenery
(c) His love scenes between Oliver and Susan are not graphic enough
(d) It is not easy to read

3. What does the conversation between Lyman and Shelley become after the writing suggestions?
(a) An argument about what to have for dinner
(b) A conversation about television
(c) A conversation about the difference of victorian era sexual attitudes and those of 1970 hippies.
(d) The beginning of an affair between Lyman and Shelley

4. Why does Oliver quit the New Almaden mine?
(a) He has found another job
(b) He was turned down for a promotion
(c) Because he is ordered to tear down a fired man's house, and he refuses to do so.
(d) He realizes he cannot do the job satisfactorily

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver tell Susan about his manager at the mine?

2. Where is Susan and Oliver's first home?

3. What religion is Susan Ward?

4. What is the bad news her mother tells her on the first day home?

5. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?

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