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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who meets the boat with a carriage and driver to take Silas Lapham and Tom Corey home?
(a) Persis Lapham.
(b) Irene Lapham.
(c) Penelope Lapham.
(d) Mr. Sewell.

3. In Chapter Twelve, what do the Corey sisters bring back from their summer vacation?
(a) New wardrobes.
(b) Studies of kelp & toadstools, rocks & rotten logs.
(c) A new housemaid.
(d) Cases of the measles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Silas Lapham give Milton Rogers to produce the parties who Rogers claims want to buy the mills?

2. Which of the following statements does not describe the decision Silas Lapham comes to regarding the potential buyers of the mills?

3. Which member of the Lapham family refuses to attend the Coreys' dinner party?

4. Who defends Milton Rogers to Silas Lapham and refuses to believe Rogers is the swindler he seems to be?

5. With what keen sense does Nanny Corey read novels?

(see the answer key)

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