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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. How does Susan deal with her frustration?
(a) She begins a career as an illustrator for books and magazines
(b) She goes back east and divorces Oliver
(c) She spends her time reading and ignoring the household duties
(d) She falls in love with the gardener

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

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

4. Why doesn't Susan become friends with any of the people in New Almaden?
(a) She considers them boring
(b) She lives too far away
(c) She does not speak their language
(d) Oliver does not allow her to mingle with them

5. How many years after their first meeting do Susan and Oliver wait to marry?
(a) 15 years
(b) 2 years
(c) 8 years
(d) 10 years

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lyman begin fictionalizing his grandparents' lives in a novel?

2. Rodman is concerned about his father living alone because

3. What are Susan's hopes about Thomas Hudson?

4. What reason does Augusta give Susan for disliking Oliver?

5. What is Susan's first clue that her marriage may not be everything she has dreamed?

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