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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Susan's first clue that her marriage may not be everything she has dreamed?
(a) Oliver says another woman's name at the wedding service
(b) Oliver gives her the wrong address of their new home
(c) Oliver disappears on their wedding night
(d) Oliver fails to send her train fare to join him in California

3. How many years after their first meeting do Susan and Oliver wait to marry?
(a) 15 years
(b) 2 years
(c) 8 years
(d) 10 years

4. 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 taking steroids
(d) He is mute.

5. Why is the baby nicknamed Ollie?
(a) Because Lizzie cannot pronounce the baby's name
(b) It is short for Olivia
(c) It was the name of Susan's childhood friend
(d) It is a shortened version of his first name, Oliver, and saves from being confused with his father in the story.

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

7. How does Susan's career expand at this time?
(a) Thomas asks her to be a writer as well as an illustrator.
(b) Susan takes in mending and washing clothes for the miners
(c) Susan becomes a model
(d) Susan begins to study engineering

8. What is Susan's main character trait in this chapter?
(a) Resolve, determination and strength in the face of criticism
(b) Fear of change
(c) Whining and indecisiveness
(d) Submission and resignation

9. Who does Susan kiss in error upon her and Ollie's arrival in Leadville?
(a) Mrs. Elliott
(b) Frank Sargeant
(c) Mr. King
(d) Lizzie

10. What does Lyman originally think of Shelley?
(a) that she will steal his story ideas and write her own book
(b) That she is loud and brazen, completely different from his grandmother who was genteel and always dressed impeccably
(c) that she is attractive and fun
(d) that she is shy and boring

11. Who is Shelley Rasmussen?
(a) She is the daughter of Ada, the Housekeeper and becomes Lyman's transcriptionist
(b) Lyman's longtime girlfriend
(c) Ada's lesbian lover
(d) The gardener's wife

12. Why is Susan intent upon Oliver pursuing a career other than mining?
(a) Susan wants to travel
(b) Susan thinks engineering is boring
(c) She is allergic to mine dust
(d) She wants her family to have a permanent home, as Augusta and Thomas have

13. Who is Rodman?
(a) Rodman is a friend of Larry's
(b) Rodman is an old boyfriend of Shelley
(c) Rodman is Lyman's uncle
(d) Rodman Ward is Lyman's only child, and is a professor at Berkeley

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

15. Who is Marian Prouse?
(a) An author Susan admires
(b) Oliver's sister
(c) The genteel woman sent from Oliver's family in Connecticut to assist Susan in New Almaden with the new baby.
(d) Augusta's brother

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ferd Ward?

2. Who is Clarence King?

3. Why does the author call this period a blissful time for his grandmother?

4. Why is progress stopped in the Argentina mine?

5. Why doesn't Ollie come with Susan to Leadville?

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