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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 is Oliver's mining job after Deadwood?
(a) Mexico
(b) Milton NY
(c) Bolivia
(d) Leadville, Colorado

2. Why is Susan intent upon Oliver pursuing a career other than mining?
(a) Susan wants to travel
(b) She is allergic to mine dust
(c) She wants her family to have a permanent home, as Augusta and Thomas have
(d) Susan thinks engineering is boring

3. Why doesn't Susan become friends with any of the people in New Almaden?
(a) Oliver does not allow her to mingle with them
(b) She considers them boring
(c) She does not speak their language
(d) She lives too far away

4. Rodman is concerned about his father living alone because
(a) Rodman is afraid Ada will steal Lyman's money
(b) Lyman is disabled and his caretakers are also elderly
(c) Rodman wants to live in Zodiac Cottage by himself
(d) Rodman is romantically interested in Shelley

5. Who is Mrs. Elliott?
(a) Susan's aunt
(b) A traveling salesperson
(c) A friend of Susan's aunt, Mrs. Elliott is an outspoken and opinionated woman from Santa Cruz.
(d) The midwife

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a recurring plot device used by the author?

2. How does the author use Shelley to expand the storyline?

3. What is the reason for the Wards' financial problems when Susan arrives?

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

5. Who is Ferd Ward?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Susan's attitude about her one-room shack in Leadville?

3. How are the scenes in this chapter different from all the ones before and after as far as the marriage between Oliver and Susan?

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

5. How does the servant girl Lizzie provide an example to Susan of the western way of life?

6. Why are Mrs. Elliott's suggestions so confusing to Susan?

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

8. How is the trip from Denver to Leadville symbolic of the Wards' marriage?

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

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

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