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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter Eleven, who does Tom Corey suggest his father meet?
(a) Mr. Sewell.
(b) Irene Lapham.
(c) Penelope Lapham.
(d) Silas Lapham.

2. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?
(a) Middlemarch.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Little Women.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

3. Why do the Laphams come to believe their home in Boston is in an unfashionable neighborhood?
(a) A newspaper article states that it is.
(b) A fashion magazine tells them it is.
(c) The fashionable Anna Corey implies that it is.
(d) Their daughters decree that it is.

4. What does Persis Lapham fret about after receiving Anna Corey's dinner invitation?
(a) What she and her family should wear to the dinner.
(b) What carriage her family should take to the dinner.
(c) How to impress the Coreys.
(d) Whether to attend the dinner or not.

5. Where does Silas Lapham decide to build a new more fashionable home?
(a) On the beach.
(b) In London.
(c) His Back Bay property.
(d) Downtown New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles Bellingham say is the most popular thing to put into a novel?

2. In Chapter Nine, who suggests inviting the Laphams to dinner?

3. Why does Anna Corey think Tom's marriage to Irene Lapham would be worse than his joining the Lapham paint business?

4. What novel do Tom Corey and Penelope discuss when Tom sees that Penelope is reading it?

5. What kind of business does Silas Lapham buy before his paint business takes off?

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