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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 Lyman's main concern at this point
(a) He is losing interest in his book
(b) He is too attracted to Shelley
(c) He has been drinking too much in the past two weeks
(d) He is worried about money

2. Who does Frank call on when he goes back east to visit his family?
(a) Augusta
(b) Susan's parents
(c) Pricey
(d) Susan's sister Bessie

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

4. What news does Oliver have when he returns to Don Gustavo's house after seeing the mine?
(a) The other men laughed at his clothes
(b) There is no money to be made in the mine and the early reports were incorrect.
(c) The mine is full of silver
(d) Don Gustavo fell off his horse

5. What does Susan ask of Oliver that he cannot give her?
(a) Stop smoking
(b) Stop riding horses
(c) Stop being an engineer
(d) Stop drinking

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Frank touch Susan that makes her yearn for him?

2. How old is Shelley in this chapter?

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

4. Why is Susan upset with Oliver?

5. Who is watching the ballgame with Lyman when Ellen appears?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is the job offer from US Geological Survey a mixed blessing?

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

5. Why does Frank commit suicide?

6. Why doesn't Susan leave with Frank?

7. Why is Susan embarrassed for Oliver during the preparations of leaving for the mine in Mexico?

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

9. 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?

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

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