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

2. What does Susan tell Mrs. Elliott that shocks the older woman?
(a) Susan and Oliver are Hindu
(b) Susan is going to buy the boardinghouse
(c) Susan's income from writing and illustrating is the only money the Ward family has at the moment
(d) Susan is in love with another man

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

4. What unusual event occurred at New Almaden?
(a) Susan went down into the mine
(b) Oliver had an affair
(c) Augusta came to see Susan
(d) Susan opened a restaurant

5. What is Oliver's mining job after Deadwood?
(a) Bolivia
(b) Milton NY
(c) Mexico
(d) Leadville, Colorado

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the baby nicknamed Ollie?

2. Who is Marian Prouse?

3. What is Susan's new form of income?

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

5. What is Rodman's reason for his visit to Lyman?

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