2. What does Frank tell Susan before he leaves the canyon?
(a) He is still in love with her and cannot bear to see her pregnant again with Oliver's child
(b) He is marrying Nellie
(c) He is leaving her all of his money
(d) He is not coming back

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

4. When does the Ward family get to move into their new house?
(a) Christmas Eve
(b) April 15th
(c) New Years Day
(d) Labor Day

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

6. What does Susan tell Augusta and Thomas that she has not told her husband yet?
(a) She is getting divorced
(b) She has sold his elk head
(c) She is carrying their second child
(d) She has sold a book

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

8. As the irrigation project becomes less and less of a reality, Susan writes and illustrates more. What does Oliver do to relieve his frustration?
(a) Finds another woman
(b) Drinks heavily
(c) Builds another house
(d) Learns another language

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

10. What has happened to the irrigation project?
(a) It is succeeding beyond expectations
(b) It was engineered incorrectly
(c) The financial backing has stopped again
(d) It has been taken over by the government

11. Where did Shelley get the manifesto?
(a) She found it in Ada's purse
(b) Her boyfriend Larry gave it to her
(c) Lyman handed it to her
(d) Rodman sent it to her

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

13. Who is watching the ballgame with Lyman when Ellen appears?
(a) Pricey and Frank
(b) Ollie, Agnes and Betsy
(c) Al, Shelley, Ed and Ada
(d) Oliver, Susan, and Ollie

14. Who is Don Gustavo?
(a) Emelita's husband
(b) The host for the Ward visit, and a principal in the mine where Oliver is considering being employed
(c) The name of the horse Susan rides in Mexico
(d) The name of the town

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