View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Susan do instead?

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

3. When does the Ward family get to move into their new house?

4. What does Susan encourage Augusta and Thomas to do?

5. What happened to Agnes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Susan's impression of Mexico?

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

4. What is Susan's attitude about Idaho?

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

6. Why doesn't Susan leave with Frank?

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

8. In this chapter, how does Susan's relationship with Frank Sargeant change?

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

10. What is the tone of Susan's letter to Augusta in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Rodman different from his father? Does Lyman admire his son or resent him? Does Rodman respect his father or see him as a chore and an obligation?

Essay Topic 2

What qualities did Susan admire in Augusta that she herself did not have? How did Susan shape her life to be more like Augusta's life? What did Augusta have that Susan wanted?

Essay Topic 3

What are Susan's qualities that make her a strong western woman? Give examples of each quality.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 641 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample