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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 6 | Book 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Marian Prouse?
(a) An author Susan admires
(b) Augusta's brother
(c) The genteel woman sent from Oliver's family in Connecticut to assist Susan in New Almaden with the new baby.
(d) Oliver's sister

3. This chapter highlights several of Oliver's traits - what are some of them?
(a) Compassion for those less fortunate, decency,misplaced loyalty, principals, lack of good business judgement, more of a dreamer
(b) Greed and avarice
(c) Snobbery and high handed behavior
(d) Ignorance and selfishness

4. How does Susan's career expand at this time?
(a) Thomas asks her to be a writer as well as an illustrator.
(b) Susan begins to study engineering
(c) Susan takes in mending and washing clothes for the miners
(d) Susan becomes a model

5. Why didn't Oliver send the train fare for his wife and her maid?
(a) He did send it, but it got lost in the mail
(b) He forgot
(c) He did not have the money to send
(d) He gambled away the money

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author call this period a blissful time for his grandmother?

2. How many years after their first meeting do Susan and Oliver wait to marry?

3. Why does Lyman Ward return to his family home?

4. What was Susan's overall impression of the mine workers?

5. What is Susan's main character trait in this chapter?

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