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

2. 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 becomes a model
(d) Susan takes in mending and washing clothes for the miners

3. Why is the baby nicknamed Ollie?
(a) It is short for Olivia
(b) It was the name of Susan's childhood friend
(c) It is a shortened version of his first name, Oliver, and saves from being confused with his father in the story.
(d) Because Lizzie cannot pronounce the baby's name

4. Where do Susan and Oliver first meet?
(a) Inside a mine
(b) In an elevator
(c) On a train headed west
(d) At a high society party

5. Who is Mrs. Elliott?
(a) A friend of Susan's aunt, Mrs. Elliott is an outspoken and opinionated woman from Santa Cruz.
(b) Susan's aunt
(c) The midwife
(d) A traveling salesperson

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Oliver tell Susan about his manager at the mine?

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