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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Susan and the baby go when he takes the job?
(a) They stay in Santa Cruz with Mrs. Elliott
(b) Back to Milton, New York, to live with Susan's parents
(c) Mexico
(d) with Oliver

3. Who is Mrs. Elliott?
(a) A traveling salesperson
(b) Susan's aunt
(c) A friend of Susan's aunt, Mrs. Elliott is an outspoken and opinionated woman from Santa Cruz.
(d) The midwife

4. Where do Susan and Oliver first meet?
(a) In an elevator
(b) Inside a mine
(c) On a train headed west
(d) At a high society party

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

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

7. What is the difference between Leadville and New Almaden?
(a) Leadville is a growing mining town with visitors from all over the world
(b) Leadville is smaller
(c) New Almaden is nearer to a big city
(d) Leadville is in the United States

8. Why is progress stopped in the Argentina mine?
(a) Ownership has been questioned and it is tied up in litigation.
(b) There is nothing to mine there
(c) An explosion closed the mine
(d) It has been moved to Denver

9. How does Susan view Lizzie?
(a) Stong, patient, resilient mother who has accepted her conditions well.
(b) A noisy, bothersome helpmate
(c) A competitor for Oliver's attention
(d) A thief

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

11. Who is Lizzie?
(a) A young woman who Susan brings along to serve as cook and housekeeper in New Almaden
(b) Oliver's first wife
(c) Lyman's grand-daughter
(d) Susan's sister

12. Why is everyone concerned about Larry being around Shelley?
(a) Because Shelley is pregnant with Lyman's child
(b) Because Larry has a bad cold
(c) Because Shelley is allergic to Larry's cologne
(d) Because Larry once threatened to cut Shelley's throat.

13. What are Susan's hopes about Thomas Hudson?
(a) That he will purchase a horse for her
(b) That he will buy her family's home so she can move the entire family west
(c) That he will move west
(d) That he will ask her to marry him, or at least stay single so she, Thomas, and Augusta will be an eternal threesome.

14. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?
(a) He saved Lyman's life
(b) He caused Lyman to lose his leg
(c) He provides comic relief and helps to flesh out the character of Lyman, son of the richest family in town.
(d) He is Shelley's husband

15. What happens to Ollie in this chapter?
(a) He has a birthday
(b) He is bitten by a rattlesnake
(c) He becomes ill again
(d) He gets a horse

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rodman?

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

3. Where is Susan and Oliver's first home?

4. What is the name of the big black dog that Oliver has for Susan's protection?

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

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