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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 8, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Susan occupy her time during the years the Wards are waiting for financial backing on the irrigation project?
(a) Sewing quilts and selling them in Boise
(b) Doing portraits for money
(c) Writing novels and continuing her illustrations for books and magazines
(d) Teaching the town children

2. What does Susan encourage Augusta and Thomas to do?
(a) Send her more money
(b) Send her roses
(c) Make a homestead claim in the canyon
(d) Buy shares in the irrigation project

3. Where did Oliver live while he was waiting for his house to be finished?
(a) In a tent
(b) At Mother Fall's Boardinghouse
(c) In a car
(d) With friends

4. Oliver has news for Susan when he returns to Santa Cruz - what is it?
(a) He has found a job in Milton New York
(b) He has found them another place to live
(c) He has successfully invented hydraulic cement
(d) He is moving the family to Bolivia

5. Who is Shelley Rasmussen?
(a) The gardener's wife
(b) Ada's lesbian lover
(c) Lyman's longtime girlfriend
(d) She is the daughter of Ada, the Housekeeper and becomes Lyman's transcriptionist

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frank's "incurable disease"?

2. What does the conversation between Lyman and Shelley become after the writing suggestions?

3. Why does Susan find the advice confusing?

4. What odd presents did Oliver send from Leadville to Susan and Ollie in Milton?

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

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