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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Al Sutton important to this story?
(a) He is Shelley's husband
(b) He saved Lyman's life
(c) He caused Lyman to lose his leg
(d) He provides comic relief and helps to flesh out the character of Lyman, son of the richest family in town.

2. What is Susan's new form of income?
(a) As an illustrator for a publishing company owned by Hudson
(b) She manages a brothel in Milton
(c) She is a teacher
(d) She writes a cookbook

3. What was the issue between Susan and Oliver that clouded their trip to Leadville?
(a) Susan wanted to drive the wagon
(b) Oliver would not stop so Susan could draw
(c) Oliver had to whip the horses to keep the wagon from going over a cliff, and Susan felt he was being cruel and mean
(d) Oliver was drinking

4. How is this chapter different from others, from the perspective of the Ward marriage?
(a) Shelley wrote it
(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) It is shorter than the others

5. Who does Susan kiss in error upon her and Ollie's arrival in Leadville?
(a) Mrs. Elliott
(b) Frank Sargeant
(c) Lizzie
(d) Mr. King

6. When they arrive at the cabin, where is Pricey?
(a) At the local tavern
(b) Reading
(c) Asleep in their bed
(d) Critically injured from a beating

7. Why does Susan find the advice confusing?
(a) Mrs. Elliott is recommending Susan make her husband happy, after Mrs. Elliott has endorsed womens rights.
(b) Susan has a hearing problem
(c) Susan does not speak Mrs. Elliott's language
(d) Susan is unable to understand the situation

8. What is the understanding between Oliver and Susan that develops during their five year correspondence?
(a) That Susan's family will finance Oliver's projects
(b) That Oliver will be the best man at Susan's wedding to Thomas
(c) That Susan will become Oliver's wife
(d) That Susan will draw Oliver's likeness for his personal stationery

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

10. Who meets her train when she arrives at her destination?
(a) No one
(b) Her family
(c) Augusta and Thomas
(d) Oliver's family

11. 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

12. What was the weather like on the trip to New Almaden?
(a) Icy and cold
(b) Hot and dusty
(c) pleasantly warm
(d) Cool and breezy

13. Why is Susan angry at Oliver?
(a) Because he turned down the severance pay
(b) Because Oliver finishes his assignments for the company before departing.
(c) Because he did not put the toilet seat down
(d) Because she wanted him to continue working there

14. Why doesn't Susan become friends with any of the people in New Almaden?
(a) She lives too far away
(b) Oliver does not allow her to mingle with them
(c) She considers them boring
(d) She does not speak their language

15. Where do the Wards go after New Almaden?
(a) Santa Cruz, California, to live at Mrs. Elliott's boarding house while Oliver looks for another job
(b) Milton, New York
(c) San Francisco
(d) New York City, New York

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes an unexpected appearance in Grass Valley?

2. Oliver has news for Susan when he returns to Santa Cruz - what is it?

3. Why does Susan agree to marry Oliver?

4. What odd presents did Oliver send from Leadville to Susan and Ollie in Milton?

5. What is Lyman's fear?

(see the answer keys)

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