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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) 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

2. What unusual event occurred at New Almaden?
(a) Susan opened a restaurant
(b) Augusta came to see Susan
(c) Oliver had an affair
(d) Susan went down into the mine

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 provides comic relief and helps to flesh out the character of Lyman, son of the richest family in town.
(d) He is Shelley's husband

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why didn't Oliver send the train fare for his wife and her maid?

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

4. Why was Thomas Hudson a frail and sickly man?

5. Why does Susan agree to marry Oliver?

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