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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 3 | Book 3, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Lyman originally think of Shelley?
(a) that she is attractive and fun
(b) That she is loud and brazen, completely different from his grandmother who was genteel and always dressed impeccably
(c) that she will steal his story ideas and write her own book
(d) that she is shy and boring

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Susan view Lizzie?

2. What was the weather like on the trip to New Almaden?

3. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?

4. What unusual event occurred at New Almaden?

5. Why is Susan angry at Oliver?

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