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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6, Chapter 2 | Book 7, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Susan returns home to Milton to spend the winter and get Ollie, what project does she begin?
(a) Studying Spanish
(b) Cleaning the storeroom and attic
(c) Writing her memoirs
(d) Writing a book about her grandparents

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

3. Why does Lyman resist Shelley's suggestions?
(a) He is jealous of her writing abilities
(b) He does not understand her meaning
(c) She does not express her suggestions well.
(d) He is not writing for a modern reader, but as a way to find out more about himself through his family history.

4. Why is Susan upset with Oliver?
(a) He was late arriving from Boise
(b) He brought another elk head with him
(c) He forgot to bring her a present
(d) He has taken on an irrigation project instead of a mining job and did not tell her

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. Who is Shelley Rasmussen?

2. Why is the baby nicknamed Ollie?

3. The road to Leadville from the train station is long and arduous. What are just a few of the things that happened on the voyage?

4. What is the next mining job for Oliver?

5. Where do Oliver, Susan and their traveling party stay on their trip leaving Mexico?

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