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

2. Where is Susan and Oliver's first home?
(a) New Almaden, California
(b) Milton, NY
(c) Houston, TX
(d) San Francisco, CA

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

4. Rodman is concerned about his father living alone because
(a) Lyman is disabled and his caretakers are also elderly
(b) Rodman wants to live in Zodiac Cottage by himself
(c) Rodman is romantically interested in Shelley
(d) Rodman is afraid Ada will steal Lyman's money

5. Lyman believes that his grandparents were
(a) Tough, resilient, creative and enduring.
(b) Boring and untalented.
(c) Wealthy and selfish.
(d) Afraid to take chances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Susan's new form of income?

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

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

4. How does Susan view Lizzie?

5. Why does Susan agree to marry Oliver?

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