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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Augusta give Susan for disliking Oliver?
(a) Augusta is jealous of Susan's affections for Oliver, and believes Oliver is not good enough for Susan.
(b) Because he is illiterate
(c) Because he did not graduate from Harvard
(d) Because he is not from a wealthy family.

2. Where do Susan and Oliver first meet?
(a) At a high society party
(b) Inside a mine
(c) On a train headed west
(d) In an elevator

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

4. What odd presents did Oliver send from Leadville to Susan and Ollie in Milton?
(a) Twenty-four canaries
(b) A Christmas tree and a puppy
(c) Beaver skins and a gigantic elk head
(d) Liquor and candy

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lyman resist Shelley's suggestions?

2. Who is charged with the care of Pricey after his injury?

3. What does the conversation between Lyman and Shelley become after the writing suggestions?

4. Rodman is concerned about his father living alone because

5. Why does Lyman begin fictionalizing his grandparents' lives in a novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lyman resistant to Shelley's writing suggestions?

2. When Augusta disapproves of Oliver, what characteristics in Susan are brought to light?

3. Why do Lyman and Al become better friends in the present than they were as children?

4. Why is Oliver unsuccessful in his attempts to market his invention?

5. Why are Shelley's problems critical to the story?

6. Why is Lyman so uncomfortable around Shelley?

7. Why was it so unusual for Susan to enter the mine at New Almaden?

8. What makes Lyman wonder about his grandmother's sexual preferences?

9. What characteristics are further brought out once Susan joins her husband in New Almaden?

10. Why doesn't Susan want Oliver to accept the job in Bolivia?

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