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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6, Chapter 2 | Book 7, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susan tell Mrs. Elliott that shocks the older woman?
(a) Susan and Oliver are Hindu
(b) Susan is going to buy the boardinghouse
(c) Susan is in love with another man
(d) Susan's income from writing and illustrating is the only money the Ward family has at the moment

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

3. How is this chapter different from others, from the perspective of the Ward marriage?
(a) It is shorter than the others
(b) Lyman is allowing the intimacy of a young married couple to be shown
(c) It is written from the point of view of the baby
(d) Shelley wrote it

4. What does Lyman consider to be the only intrusion to the routine of his days in Grass Valley?
(a) The ball games
(b) Shelley's arrival in the afternoons to work for him
(c) The highway noise
(d) Ada's nightly ministrations

5. What does the conversation between Lyman and Shelley become after the writing suggestions?
(a) The beginning of an affair between Lyman and Shelley
(b) An argument about what to have for dinner
(c) A conversation about the difference of victorian era sexual attitudes and those of 1970 hippies.
(d) A conversation about television

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lyman first hear of Susan and Oliver's time in Mexico?

2. Why does Lyman Ward return to his family home?

3. What is Oliver's mining job after Deadwood?

4. What happens to Pricey?

5. What does Susan encourage Oliver to do instead of moving their family to another country?

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