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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. Who is Lizzie?
(a) Lyman's grand-daughter
(b) A young woman who Susan brings along to serve as cook and housekeeper in New Almaden
(c) Oliver's first wife
(d) Susan's sister

2. What is the next job offer that Oliver gets?
(a) Become a professor of engineering
(b) Run a saloon in Leadville
(c) To write for Harpers Weekly
(d) Join the Geological Survey

3. What is the bad news her mother tells her on the first day home?
(a) Her sister Bessie is ill
(b) Her mother is expecting a baby
(c) Thomas is severely ill
(d) Augusta has passed away

4. Why was Thomas Hudson a frail and sickly man?
(a) He had been injured in the war.
(b) He was a vegetarian
(c) He abused alcohol
(d) He had cancer

5. How is this chapter different from others, from the perspective of the Ward marriage?
(a) It is written from the point of view of the baby
(b) Shelley wrote it
(c) Lyman is allowing the intimacy of a young married couple to be shown
(d) It is shorter than the others

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lyman believes that his grandparents were

3. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?

4. What does Oliver tell Susan about his manager at the mine?

5. Rodman is concerned about his father living alone because

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is life harmonious and happy for the Wards in Leadville?

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

4. In what ways in this chapter does the author remind the reader of Susan's issues?

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

6. What is Susan's attitude towards her marriage and new life in this chapter?

7. How is Lyman's situation similar to that of Oliver?

8. Why did Oliver resign from the New Almaden Mine?

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

10. What attracted Susan to Oliver?

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