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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rodman's reason for his visit to Lyman?

2. What is Lyman's fear?

3. What is a recurring plot device used by the author?

4. What is Susan's new form of income?

5. There is trouble in Leadville with Oliver's claim. What has happened?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Oliver resign from the New Almaden Mine?

3. In what ways in this chapter does the author remind the reader of Susan's issues?

4. Why do Lyman and Al become better friends in the present than they were as children?

5. Is life harmonious and happy for the Wards in Leadville?

6. What is Susan's attitude towards her marriage and new life in this chapter?

7. What does Lyman hope to accomplish during the writing about his grandparents' lives?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think really happened to Agnes and Frank?

Essay Topic 2

How is life today different from the life described by the author for Susan and Oliver Ward? How do you think their lives would have been different if they had been married in 2008 instead of the 1800's?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Oliver continue to fail? Take each job and analyze what he could have done differently to keep the position and stay with that company. Did he make the decision that was best for his family each time?

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