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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the commune going to be located?
(a) Staten Island
(b) North San Juan, four miles north of Nevada City
(c) San Francisco
(d) Milton, NY

2. What is Susan doing in this chapter just before Oliver returns home?
(a) cooking
(b) Drawing
(c) cleaning house
(d) sleeping

3. How long have the Wards been working on the irrigation project?
(a) 2 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 8 years
(d) 7 years

4. What does Frank tell Susan before he leaves the canyon?
(a) He is still in love with her and cannot bear to see her pregnant again with Oliver's child
(b) He is marrying Nellie
(c) He is not coming back
(d) He is leaving her all of his money

5. Who is Emelita?
(a) Don Gustavo's pet dog
(b) Oliver's mother
(c) Don Gustavo's sister-in-law and housekeeper
(d) Susan's sister

6. Who is Nellie Linton?
(a) Susan's mother
(b) A teacher and nanny from England who lives with the Wards in the canyon
(c) Lizzie's mother
(d) Augusta's nanny

7. When does the Ward family get to move into their new house?
(a) Christmas Eve
(b) Labor Day
(c) April 15th
(d) New Years Day

8. What does Lyman say is wisdom
(a) Knowing all the answers on Jeopardy
(b) Knowing what you have to accept.
(c) Getting a degree
(d) Graduating from high school

9. To what does Shelley compare the commune?
(a) Thoreau's Walden
(b) A native american tribe
(c) Susan's home on the mesa in Boise Canyon
(d) Living in San Francisco

10. Susan is searching Oliver's eyes to see if he is still drinking. What is Oliver looking for in Susan's eyes?
(a) To see if she is still in love with him
(b) Resentment about the new house
(c) Cataracts
(d) Feelings for Frank Sargeant

11. What brings her back to the canyon in Idaho?
(a) Oliver has found new backing for the irrigation project
(b) She runs out of money
(c) Frank has asked her to meet him there
(d) The town has asked her to return

12. What does Augusta ask Susan about Frank?
(a) If he is a good horseman
(b) If he can draw
(c) If he can write for them
(d) If Susan is in love with him

13. What does Susan do instead?
(a) Returns to Boise
(b) Moves in with Augusta
(c) Stops writing and illustrating
(d) Takes a steamer to China

14. How did Oliver know someone had come to see Susan while he and the children were gone?
(a) Oliver had come back early and seen them
(b) Frank left his gloves on the rail
(c) Nellie had told Oliver someone was there
(d) Oliver could smell smoke from a cigarette

15. 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 drinking and is drunk
(c) He has another woman
(d) He has been hiding money from her

Short Answer Questions

1. What job offer does Oliver finally take?

2. What is their cook's name?

3. How does Susan perceive the move to Boise?

4. Who is Ollie's benefactor at St. Paul's?

5. What is the proposition made to her that night?

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