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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 7 | Book 4, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Susan view Lizzie?
(a) A competitor for Oliver's attention
(b) A thief
(c) A noisy, bothersome helpmate
(d) Stong, patient, resilient mother who has accepted her conditions well.

2. Where do the Wards go after New Almaden?
(a) Milton, New York
(b) San Francisco
(c) Santa Cruz, California, to live at Mrs. Elliott's boarding house while Oliver looks for another job
(d) New York City, New York

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

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 afraid Ada will steal Lyman's money
(d) Rodman is romantically interested in Shelley

5. Where is Oliver's next mining job?
(a) Bolivia
(b) Santa Cruz
(c) Deadwood in the Black Hills of the Dakotas
(d) New Almaden

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marian Prouse?

2. Oliver is offered a mining job in another country - which one?

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

4. Why does Susan agree to marry Oliver?

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

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