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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What task has Oliver given to Susan while he is gone?
(a) To buy some pots
(b) To spy on Emelita
(c) To find a house if he decides to take the job
(d) To write to her family for money

2. What does Susan ask of Oliver that he cannot give her?
(a) Stop smoking
(b) Stop riding horses
(c) Stop being an engineer
(d) Stop drinking

3. How does Lyman's wife tell him she is leaving him for his surgeon?
(a) She calls him on the phone
(b) She writes a note and places it on his hospital bed stand.
(c) She tells him in person
(d) She sends him a telegram

4. How does Oliver look in the procession of people headed to the mine for inspection?
(a) Like an eastern gentleman
(b) Like a prince
(c) Like an Indian
(d) Out of place in his Colorado gear, while eveyrone else is dressed in splendor

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

6. Of what does Susan accuse Oliver?
(a) Fighting in bars
(b) Damaging her artwork
(c) Trusting the wrong people and trusting too much
(d) Stealing money

7. How is this project funded?
(a) They get a grant from the government
(b) From Susan's earnings as a writer and illustrator
(c) They borrow the money from Frank's family
(d) The men find a rich vein of silver in a mine

8. To what does Shelley compare the commune?
(a) Thoreau's Walden
(b) Susan's home on the mesa in Boise Canyon
(c) Living in San Francisco
(d) A native american tribe

9. How does Susan occupy her time during the years the Wards are waiting for financial backing on the irrigation project?
(a) Sewing quilts and selling them in Boise
(b) Doing portraits for money
(c) Teaching the town children
(d) Writing novels and continuing her illustrations for books and magazines

10. Who joins the Wards in the irrigation project as an employee?
(a) Pricey
(b) Lizzie
(c) Frank Sargeant
(d) Mrs. Elliott

11. Why does the Ward family have to move from Boise into the canyon?
(a) It is closer to Oliver's work
(b) Their financial backers have pulled out support.
(c) The family is shunned from Boise
(d) Oliver wants to build a church

12. What religion is Susan Ward?
(a) Atheist
(b) Lutheran
(c) Quaker
(d) Catholic

13. Who visits Susan alone at the ranch while her family is out watching the fireworks?
(a) Mrs. Elliott
(b) Nellie
(c) Augusta
(d) Frank Sargeant

14. Where do Oliver, Susan and their traveling party stay on their trip leaving Mexico?
(a) In caves
(b) In a tent
(c) At huge mansions along the way, courtesy of Don Gustavo
(d) They ride straight through, sleeping while riding

15. Who is Nellie Linton?
(a) Augusta's nanny
(b) A teacher and nanny from England who lives with the Wards in the canyon
(c) Lizzie's mother
(d) Susan's mother

Short Answer Questions

1. How long have the Wards been working on the irrigation project?

2. After several years of waiting for financial backers, what happens to Frank and Wiley?

3. Who is watching the ballgame with Lyman when Ellen appears?

4. When the money runs out and the group is facing a winter of no work, what do they decide to do?

5. Where does Susan send Agnes and Betsy so she and Oliver can talk?

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