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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 is this chapter different from others, from the perspective of the Ward marriage?
(a) Shelley wrote it
(b) Lyman is allowing the intimacy of a young married couple to be shown
(c) It is shorter than the others
(d) It is written from the point of view of the baby

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

3. What is Rodman's reason for his visit to Lyman?
(a) Rodman is getting married again
(b) Rodman wants to borrow money
(c) Lyman's wife, Ellen, wants to see him
(d) Rodman wants to live in Grass Valley with Lyman

4. What does Susan encourage Oliver to do instead of moving their family to another country?
(a) Become a hotel manager
(b) Continue trying to invent hydraulic cement
(c) Become a salesman for Sears
(d) Become a writer like her

5. Where do Susan and the baby go when he takes the job?
(a) with Oliver
(b) They stay in Santa Cruz with Mrs. Elliott
(c) Mexico
(d) Back to Milton, New York, to live with Susan's parents

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Susan and Oliver first meet?

2. Why is everyone concerned about Larry being around Shelley?

3. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?

4. Why does Oliver quit the New Almaden mine?

5. What does Susan tell Mrs. Elliott that shocks the older woman?

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