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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. Why does Oliver begin looking for another job?
(a) He is bored with his present job
(b) A lawsuit has stopped all work on the mine he has been working
(c) He has been fired
(d) The company he is working for has no insurance

2. What does Susan discover about her husband one night as he returns from meetings with potential backers in Boise?
(a) He has another woman
(b) He has been drinking and is drunk
(c) He has been hiding money from her
(d) He does not know how to read

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

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

5. How did Lyman first hear of Susan and Oliver's time in Mexico?
(a) He was doing a school project about Mexico and his grandmother told him the story.
(b) He read it in a letter from Susan to Augusta
(c) His mother told him
(d) It was in a newspaper clipping

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author tell the reader about Susan and Oliver's life after the irrigation project failed?

2. What happened to Frank Sargeant?

3. How old is Ollie when he is first sent away to school?

4. In this book, to what does the Angle of Repose refer?

5. What has happened to the irrigation project?

Short Essay Questions

1. In this chapter, Lyman describes some of the resources he uses to recreate the life of his Grandmother Susan Ward. Describe them.

2. Oliver and Susan are in serious disagreement when he comes to New York - why?

3. What is Susan's attitude towards Oliver when she returns to New York and is with her friends?

4. Why does Frank commit suicide?

5. What happens between Frank and Susan on the evening of July 4th?

6. What is Susan's attitude about Idaho?

7. Why doesn't Susan leave with Frank?

8. What is Susan's impression of Mexico?

9. Why do Oliver and Susan argue when he returns from the mine inspection in Mexico?

10. How has the Wards' life changed, and how has it stayed the same?

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