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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 the understanding between Oliver and Susan that develops during their five year correspondence?
(a) That Susan will draw Oliver's likeness for his personal stationery
(b) That Oliver will be the best man at Susan's wedding to Thomas
(c) That Susan's family will finance Oliver's projects
(d) That Susan will become Oliver's wife

2. What is Susan's attitude towards Oliver during this time in New Almaden?
(a) She is in love and sees no faults
(b) She considers an immediate divorce
(c) She admires him for his handiness and intelligence, but is dismayed by his lack of ambition and business judgement.
(d) She believes he compares favorably with Thomas

3. 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 gambled away the money
(d) He did not have the money to send

4. What does Lyman consider to be the only intrusion to the routine of his days in Grass Valley?
(a) Shelley's arrival in the afternoons to work for him
(b) The ball games
(c) Ada's nightly ministrations
(d) The highway noise

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pricey?

2. What is the reason for the Wards' financial problems when Susan arrives?

3. This chapter highlights several of Oliver's traits - what are some of them?

4. What is a good description of the Ward home?

5. What unusual event occurred at New Almaden?

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