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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Silas Lapham give Milton Rogers to produce the parties who Rogers claims want to buy the mills?
(a) Twenty four hours.
(b) A week.
(c) A month.
(d) Ten days.

2. Where is Irene Lapham when Anna Corey visits the Laphams in Chapter Twelve?
(a) Away from home to get a book.
(b) Visiting Silas at his office.
(c) In her bedroom ill with a fever.
(d) Visiting an old friend in Salem.

3. What collateral of Milton Rogers's is Silas Lapham going to sell for what they will fetch in the market?
(a) Rogers's stocks and his mills.
(b) Rogers's gold watch.
(c) Rogers's diamond ring.
(d) Rogers's house in the country.

4. Where does Tom Corey visit his mother and sisters in Chapter Six?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Florida.
(c) Bar Harbour.
(d) Cape Cod.

5. Who defends Milton Rogers to Silas Lapham and refuses to believe Rogers is the swindler he seems to be?
(a) Persis.
(b) Irene.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might Silas Lapham have to sell because of the financial trouble he is into with Rogers?

2. When Tom Corey approaches Silas Lapham about joining his business, how does Lapham try to treat young Corey?

3. Who meets the boat with a carriage and driver to take Silas Lapham and Tom Corey home?

4. What does Anna Corey think of her son going into Lapham's mineral paint business?

5. Which of the following statements is not something Tom Corey is told about Lapham's paint business in Chapter Twenty One?

(see the answer key)

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