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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. Of what does Susan accuse Oliver?
(a) Trusting the wrong people and trusting too much
(b) Damaging her artwork
(c) Fighting in bars
(d) Stealing money

2. What does Susan tell Augusta and Thomas that she has not told her husband yet?
(a) She has sold his elk head
(b) She is getting divorced
(c) She is carrying their second child
(d) She has sold a book

3. Who is Don Gustavo?
(a) The name of the horse Susan rides in Mexico
(b) The host for the Ward visit, and a principal in the mine where Oliver is considering being employed
(c) Emelita's husband
(d) The name of the town

4. What happens to Pricey?
(a) Oliver sends him home to England
(b) He dies
(c) He recovers and runs for Senate
(d) He stays with Susan and Oliver

5. Susan says the trip to Mexico was to her, like a trip to two Old World cities - which ones?
(a) Boston and New York
(b) London and Berlin
(c) Paris and Rome
(d) Istanbul and Madrid

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the proposition made to her that night?

2. What is their cook's name?

3. What is the next mining job for Oliver?

4. What task has Oliver given to Susan while he is gone?

5. How long have the Wards been working on the irrigation project?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are they able to resolve their differences and move on?

2. How does Shelley's reading of the manifesto bring the reader back to the present day of Lyman's 1970?

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

4. How does this chapter highlight the differences in approach to life by Oliver and Susan?

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

6. Why does the author end the story with Lyman's thoughts?

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

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

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

10. What is the underlying message to Augusta in Susan's letter from Mexico?

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