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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 perceive the move to Boise?
(a) An opportunity to write more
(b) A chance for her children to grow up in the West
(c) As going into exile
(d) A grand adventure

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

3. How did Ollie almost lose his life in the canyon?
(a) He slipped on a bridge and almost went into the swift, cold river
(b) He fell off his horse
(c) He was bitten by a snake
(d) He got lost in the plains

4. What has happened to the irrigation project?
(a) It was engineered incorrectly
(b) It is succeeding beyond expectations
(c) The financial backing has stopped again
(d) It has been taken over by the government

5. Why does the Ward family have to move from Boise into the canyon?
(a) Their financial backers have pulled out support.
(b) It is closer to Oliver's work
(c) The family is shunned from Boise
(d) Oliver wants to build a church

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Susan upset with Oliver?

2. What observations does Shelley share with Lyman about his grandfather?

3. What surprise does Oliver have for Susan?

4. What does Susan tell Augusta and Thomas that she has not told her husband yet?

5. What does Susan intend to do when she returns to the East Coast after Frank's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Oliver try to make a home welcome for Susan when the two of them are reunited in Idaho?

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

3. Why doesn't Susan leave with Frank?

4. What are Oliver's reasons for sending Pricey back to England?

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

6. What is Susan's impression of Mexico?

7. How does Oliver disappoint Susan and embarrass her to her family and friends?

8. Susan and Oliver separate as he takes the surveying job and she moves the family to Victoria BC - how does part of the Wards' life compare with Lyman's own personal history?

9. Why does Lyman feel more depressed than interested at this point in his writing work ?

10. How do Lyman's deepest feelings come out in his dream?

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