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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. How does Susan deal with her frustration?
(a) She goes back east and divorces Oliver
(b) She begins a career as an illustrator for books and magazines
(c) She falls in love with the gardener
(d) She spends her time reading and ignoring the household duties

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

3. Oliver is offered a mining job in another country - which one?
(a) Spain
(b) Bolivia
(c) Australia
(d) China

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

5. 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 does not speak their language
(c) She lives too far away
(d) She considers them boring

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Susan find the advice confusing?

2. How many years after their first meeting do Susan and Oliver wait to marry?

3. Who is Shelley Rasmussen?

4. How does Susan's career expand at this time?

5. Why is progress stopped in the Argentina mine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the 24 canaries sent to Shelley like the elk head sent to Susan?

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

3. Explain how Susan and Oliver reach a certain angle of repose while living in New Almaden?

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

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

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

7. How is Susan's transformation into a western woman exemplified in this chapter?

8. How does Susan present her New Almaden life to Augusta in their correspondence?

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

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

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