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

2. Why was Thomas Hudson a frail and sickly man?
(a) He was a vegetarian
(b) He had been injured in the war.
(c) He abused alcohol
(d) He had cancer

3. Why is Susan upset with Oliver?
(a) He forgot to bring her a present
(b) He was late arriving from Boise
(c) He brought another elk head with him
(d) He has taken on an irrigation project instead of a mining job and did not tell her

4. How does the author use Shelley to expand the storyline?
(a) By creating a romance between Shelley & Lyman
(b) By having Shelley read parts of the book out loud to Lyman
(c) By showing Shelley's thoughts about Lyman
(d) By reminding the reader of the difference between 1970's culture and society the way it was when Susan and Oliver were dating.

5. What is the purpose of Oliver's visit to the Michoacan mine
(a) To become a citizen of Mexico
(b) To locate a missing engineer
(c) To buy property
(d) To determine whether reports of a rich vein of silver is true

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lyman first hear of Susan and Oliver's time in Mexico?

2. Where is Oliver's next mining job?

3. When Susan returns home to Milton to spend the winter and get Ollie, what project does she begin?

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

5. Why doesn't Susan become friends with any of the people in New Almaden?

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