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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. What is the reason for the Wards' financial problems when Susan arrives?
(a) The mine supervisor originally said the improvements to the Ward home would be paid for by the mine, then changed his mind
(b) Susan has spent too much money on her wardrobe
(c) Oliver has an opium habit
(d) Oliver has lost his job

2. 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

3. Oliver is offered a mining job in another country - which one?
(a) Spain
(b) China
(c) Bolivia
(d) Australia

4. What was the weather like on the trip to New Almaden?
(a) Hot and dusty
(b) Cool and breezy
(c) pleasantly warm
(d) Icy and cold

5. Why was Thomas Hudson a frail and sickly man?
(a) He abused alcohol
(b) He had cancer
(c) He was a vegetarian
(d) He had been injured in the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Susan's career expand at this time?

2. Why is Susan intent upon Oliver pursuing a career other than mining?

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

4. Lyman believes that his grandparents were

5. What is the bad news her mother tells her on the first day home?

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