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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lyman's main concern at this point
(a) He is too attracted to Shelley
(b) He is losing interest in his book
(c) He is worried about money
(d) He has been drinking too much in the past two weeks

2. How old is Shelley in this chapter?
(a) 15
(b) 35
(c) 20
(d) 60

3. What does Susan discover about her husband one night as he returns from meetings with potential backers in Boise?
(a) He has been drinking and is drunk
(b) He has another woman
(c) He does not know how to read
(d) He has been hiding money from her

4. How did Oliver know someone had come to see Susan while he and the children were gone?
(a) Frank left his gloves on the rail
(b) Oliver had come back early and seen them
(c) Oliver could smell smoke from a cigarette
(d) Nellie had told Oliver someone was there

5. What is the purpose of Oliver's visit to the Michoacan mine
(a) To buy property
(b) To locate a missing engineer
(c) To determine whether reports of a rich vein of silver is true
(d) To become a citizen of Mexico

6. How did Lyman first hear of Susan and Oliver's time in Mexico?
(a) His mother told him
(b) He read it in a letter from Susan to Augusta
(c) He was doing a school project about Mexico and his grandmother told him the story.
(d) It was in a newspaper clipping

7. When Lyman's mother dies, who takes responsibility for his education?
(a) Frank Sargeant
(b) His grandmother, Susan Ward
(c) Pricey
(d) The state of Colorado

8. What is Frank's "incurable disease"?
(a) Cancer
(b) His love for Susan
(c) Malaria
(d) Indigestion

9. How old is Susan in this chapter?
(a) 92
(b) 65
(c) 18
(d) 42

10. What is the name of the mine in Boise where Oliver is working while Susan is home in Milton?
(a) The Alexandria
(b) The Adelaide
(c) #47
(d) The Wolf's Tooth

11. What does Susan intend to do when she returns to the East Coast after Frank's death?
(a) Build a monument to Frank
(b) Get an apartment in New York and continue her career
(c) Go into business with Nellie
(d) Marry Thomas Hudson

12. Why is Oliver upset with Susan in this chapter?
(a) She is seeing Thomas
(b) She did not tell him about the baby until it had already been born
(c) She is writing to Frank Sargeant
(d) She is not writing

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

14. What happened to Frank Sargeant?
(a) He shot himself in the head
(b) He ran off with Susan
(c) He ran off with Agnes
(d) He married Nellie

15. How long does Ollie stay away from his family after leaving Boise to attend St. Paul's in 1890?
(a) 5 years
(b) three months
(c) Twenty years
(d) Ten years

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joins the Wards in the irrigation project as an employee?

2. How is this project funded?

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

4. What does Shelley ask Lyman?

5. What is the next mining job for Oliver?

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