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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Susan's main character trait in this chapter?
(a) Resolve, determination and strength in the face of criticism
(b) Submission and resignation
(c) Fear of change
(d) Whining and indecisiveness

2. Why was Thomas Hudson a frail and sickly man?
(a) He had been injured in the war.
(b) He abused alcohol
(c) He had cancer
(d) He was a vegetarian

3. How does Susan's career expand at this time?
(a) Susan begins to study engineering
(b) Susan becomes a model
(c) Susan takes in mending and washing clothes for the miners
(d) Thomas asks her to be a writer as well as an illustrator.

4. Why does Lyman resist Shelley's suggestions?
(a) She does not express her suggestions well.
(b) He is jealous of her writing abilities
(c) He does not understand her meaning
(d) He is not writing for a modern reader, but as a way to find out more about himself through his family history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference between Leadville and New Almaden?

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

3. Lyman believes that his grandparents were

4. Where do the Wards go after New Almaden?

5. Oliver is offered a mining job in another country - which one?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Shelley's problems critical to the story?

2. How are the 24 canaries sent to Shelley like the elk head sent to Susan?

3. How does the servant girl Lizzie provide an example to Susan of the western way of life?

4. How is Susan's transformation into a western woman exemplified in this chapter?

5. Why was it so unusual for Susan to enter the mine at New Almaden?

6. Why is Lyman resistant to Shelley's writing suggestions?

7. How does Susan present her New Almaden life to Augusta in their correspondence?

8. How are the scenes in this chapter different from all the ones before and after as far as the marriage between Oliver and Susan?

9. What characteristics are further brought out once Susan joins her husband in New Almaden?

10. What is Susan's attitude about her one-room shack in Leadville?

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