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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ferd Ward?
(a) Oliver's grandfather
(b) Oliver's sister
(c) Oliver's father
(d) Distant cousin to Oliver, a financial Wall Street wizard

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

3. What does Larry send to Shelley, care of Lyman?
(a) A car
(b) 24 canaries
(c) a wedding ring
(d) A bottle of scotch

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

5. What is the purpose of Rodman's discussion with Lyman concerning Oliver's time at Deadwood?
(a) It allows the author to cover the time Oliver spent in Deadwood without the usual narration or correspondence plot devices.
(b) To test Lyman's mental faculties
(c) To remind the reader that Rodman and Lyman are related
(d) To show Rodman's interest in his father's book

6. What is the age difference between Susan and Frank
(a) Frank is 9 years older than Susan
(b) Susan is 9 years older than Frank
(c) They are the same age
(d) Susan is 15 years younger than Frank

7. Why didn't Oliver send the train fare for his wife and her maid?
(a) He gambled away the money
(b) He did not have the money to send
(c) He did send it, but it got lost in the mail
(d) He forgot

8. 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?
(a) They get injured, lose their wagon, and stay with friends
(b) They got frostbite, robbed, and lost
(c) They run out of food, meet Indians, and sleep in a tent
(d) The Wards were almost driven off the mountain by a stage, one of the horses pulling their wagon died, and their reservation at the hotel was cancelled.

9. Lyman believes that his grandparents were
(a) Afraid to take chances.
(b) Wealthy and selfish.
(c) Tough, resilient, creative and enduring.
(d) Boring and untalented.

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

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

12. This chapter highlights several of Oliver's traits - what are some of them?
(a) Compassion for those less fortunate, decency,misplaced loyalty, principals, lack of good business judgement, more of a dreamer
(b) Ignorance and selfishness
(c) Greed and avarice
(d) Snobbery and high handed behavior

13. What was Susan's overall impression of the mine workers?
(a) They did not know what they were doing
(b) They were happy and tanned
(c) They were ignorant and mean
(d) They appeared to be in a cruel and harsh environment, like a prison

14. Why does Lyman call himself a "man of stone"?
(a) He is mute.
(b) His family name is Stone
(c) He is taking steroids
(d) Because he is physically unable to move his head from side to side.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Oliver's next mining job?

2. Why is Susan angry at Oliver?

3. How does Susan view Lizzie?

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

5. Where do Susan and the baby go when he takes the job?

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