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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. Who joins the Wards in the irrigation project as an employee?
2. How does the author tell the reader about Susan and Oliver's life after the irrigation project failed?
3. What does Susan tell Augusta and Thomas that she has not told her husband yet?
4. Who is watching the ballgame with Lyman when Ellen appears?
5. Where does Frank touch Susan that makes her yearn for him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Susan and Oliver separate as he takes the surveying job and she moves the family to Victoria BC - how does part of the Wards' life compare with Lyman's own personal history?
2. How do Lyman's deepest feelings come out in his dream?
3. Why is the job offer from US Geological Survey a mixed blessing?
4. Oliver and Susan are in serious disagreement when he comes to New York - why?
5. How does this chapter highlight the differences in approach to life by Oliver and Susan?
6. Why is Susan embarrassed for Oliver during the preparations of leaving for the mine in Mexico?
7. In this chapter, how does Susan's relationship with Frank Sargeant change?
8. What is Susan's attitude towards Oliver when she returns to New York and is with her friends?
9. Do the Wards reach an angle of repose during this period? What is threatening to cause that balance to shift?
10. Why do Oliver and Susan argue when he returns from the mine inspection in Mexico?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are Susan and Oliver's basic complaints about each other? How do they try to resolve it, if at all? Give examples of her anger towards him, and his towards her.
Essay Topic 2
What qualities did Susan admire in Augusta that she herself did not have? How did Susan shape her life to be more like Augusta's life? What did Augusta have that Susan wanted?
Essay Topic 3
How does Oliver exemplify a pioneer spirit? How does Susan?
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