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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Susan's first clue that her marriage may not be everything she has dreamed?
(a) Oliver disappears on their wedding night
(b) Oliver gives her the wrong address of their new home
(c) Oliver says another woman's name at the wedding service
(d) Oliver fails to send her train fare to join him in California

4. Why does Lyman begin fictionalizing his grandparents' lives in a novel?
(a) They are not famous enough for a non-fiction biography, and it will help him understand them better this way.
(b) Lyman has long wanted to write a romance novel
(c) Lyman has no experience in writing
(d) Shelley suggested this form to him

5. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?
(a) He saved Lyman's life
(b) He provides comic relief and helps to flesh out the character of Lyman, son of the richest family in town.
(c) He is Shelley's husband
(d) He caused Lyman to lose his leg

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Susan deal with her frustration?

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

4. Where did Oliver live while he was waiting for his house to be finished?

5. Lyman believes that his grandparents were

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