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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author tell the reader about Susan and Oliver's life after the irrigation project failed?
(a) Lyman tells Ellen the rest of the story
(b) Lyman writes a poem
(c) Newspaper clippings about San Francisco
(d) Another letter from Susan to Augusta

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

3. Where does Frank touch Susan that makes her yearn for him?
(a) Her hand
(b) Her hair
(c) Her bare foot
(d) Her shoulder

4. Where does Susan send Agnes and Betsy so she and Oliver can talk?
(a) To play in the canyon
(b) To watch tv
(c) To their rooms
(d) To their lessons with Nellie

5. What news does Oliver have when he returns to Don Gustavo's house after seeing the mine?
(a) The other men laughed at his clothes
(b) There is no money to be made in the mine and the early reports were incorrect.
(c) The mine is full of silver
(d) Don Gustavo fell off his horse

6. Who is Emelita?
(a) Susan's sister
(b) Don Gustavo's pet dog
(c) Oliver's mother
(d) Don Gustavo's sister-in-law and housekeeper

7. What does Shelley ask Lyman?
(a) If he will loan her money
(b) If he is interested in her mother
(c) If he will marry her
(d) If she should go back with Larry and live in the commune

8. In this book, to what does the Angle of Repose refer?
(a) The name of a cemetary
(b) The feeling just before you pass away
(c) The pitch at which a stair should be constructed
(d) The angle at which a man and woman finally lie down.

9. What is Susan doing in this chapter just before Oliver returns home?
(a) cooking
(b) Drawing
(c) sleeping
(d) cleaning house

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

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

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

13. What surprise does Oliver have for Susan?
(a) He has learned a new language
(b) He has built her a house on the mesa
(c) He has bought her some flowers
(d) He has brought her family from MIlton

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Susan is searching Oliver's eyes to see if he is still drinking. What is Oliver looking for in Susan's eyes?

3. What does Susan tell Augusta and Thomas that she has not told her husband yet?

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

5. To what does Shelley compare the commune?

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