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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. How does Susan perceive the move to Boise?
(a) A chance for her children to grow up in the West
(b) As going into exile
(c) An opportunity to write more
(d) A grand adventure

2. What is Frank's "incurable disease"?
(a) Malaria
(b) Indigestion
(c) His love for Susan
(d) Cancer

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

4. Lyman is thinking about his wife in this chapter. What is her name?
(a) Lizzie
(b) Ada
(c) Ellen
(d) Susan

5. What task has Oliver given to Susan while he is gone?
(a) To find a house if he decides to take the job
(b) To spy on Emelita
(c) To write to her family for money
(d) To buy some pots

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Susan's observation about the lives of Mexican women?

2. What does Lyman do about his dream?

3. What does Frank tell Susan he misses the most?

4. Where does Frank touch Susan that makes her yearn for him?

5. When the money runs out and the group is facing a winter of no work, what do they decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the job offer from US Geological Survey a mixed blessing?

2. Why is Susan embarrassed for Oliver during the preparations of leaving for the mine in Mexico?

3. How does Oliver try to make a home welcome for Susan when the two of them are reunited in Idaho?

4. How does Shelley's reading of the manifesto bring the reader back to the present day of Lyman's 1970?

5. Why does the author end the story with Lyman's thoughts?

6. Are they able to resolve their differences and move on?

7. What is the tone of Susan's letter to Augusta in this chapter?

8. How has the Wards' life changed, and how has it stayed the same?

9. What are Oliver's reasons for sending Pricey back to England?

10. How does this chapter highlight the dangers of the West, and how does the author foreshadow the end of happy times for the Wards?

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