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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 8, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Susan's first clue that her marriage may not be everything she has dreamed?
(a) Oliver fails to send her train fare to join him in California
(b) Oliver says another woman's name at the wedding service
(c) Oliver gives her the wrong address of their new home
(d) Oliver disappears on their wedding night

2. What does Susan discover about her husband one night as he returns from meetings with potential backers in Boise?
(a) He does not know how to read
(b) He has been hiding money from her
(c) He has another woman
(d) He has been drinking and is drunk

3. How old is Ollie when he is first sent away to school?
(a) 14
(b) 5
(c) 18
(d) 12

4. Who is Clarence King?
(a) Susan's employer
(b) Director of the Geological Survey and a writer
(c) Frank's father
(d) Oliver's boss

5. Why is Susan intent upon Oliver pursuing a career other than mining?
(a) Susan thinks engineering is boring
(b) She wants her family to have a permanent home, as Augusta and Thomas have
(c) She is allergic to mine dust
(d) Susan wants to travel

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lyman's wife tell him she is leaving him for his surgeon?

2. How does Susan perceive the move to Boise?

3. Where do Susan and Oliver first meet?

4. What is a good description of the Ward home?

5. Why is progress stopped in the Argentina mine?

(see the answer key)

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