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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why didn't Oliver send the train fare for his wife and her maid?
(a) He forgot
(b) He did send it, but it got lost in the mail
(c) He did not have the money to send
(d) He gambled away the money

3. What was the issue between Susan and Oliver that clouded their trip to Leadville?
(a) Susan wanted to drive the wagon
(b) Oliver had to whip the horses to keep the wagon from going over a cliff, and Susan felt he was being cruel and mean
(c) Oliver would not stop so Susan could draw
(d) Oliver was drinking

4. Who is Frank Sargeant?
(a) Ollie's childhood friend
(b) Susan's editor
(c) Oliver's boss
(d) Oliver's assistant in Leadville and becomes a longtime family friend

5. Why does Lyman call himself a "man of stone"?
(a) His family name is Stone
(b) Because he is physically unable to move his head from side to side.
(c) He is mute.
(d) He is taking steroids

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Augusta give Susan for disliking Oliver?

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

3. Why doesn't Susan become friends with any of the people in New Almaden?

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

5. Where do the Wards go after New Almaden?

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