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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV and XV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Anna Corey think Tom's marriage to Irene Lapham would be worse than his joining the Lapham paint business?
(a) Irene is not pretty.
(b) Irene is dull.
(c) Persis Lapham would be his mother-in-law.
(d) Silas Lapham would be his father-in-law.

2. Which member of the Lapham family has been reading the novel Tom Corey sees on the Lapham parlor table?
(a) Persis.
(b) Irene.
(c) Silas.
(d) Penelope.

3. Which guest at the Coreys' dinner party thinks novels are "psychical suicide" and give too much importance to love, love-making, and marriage?
(a) Miss Kingsbury.
(b) Charles Bellingham.
(c) Silas Lapham.
(d) Mr. Sewell, the minister.

4. What does Charles Bellingham say is the most popular thing to put into a novel?
(a) Romance.
(b) Self sacrifice.
(c) Mysteries and secrets.
(d) Murder.

5. When Lapham apologizes to Tom Corey at the office after the Coreys' dinner party for his behavior at the party, what does Tom blame for the incident?
(a) Lapham's eagerness to seem friendly.
(b) Serving wine to a man not used to drinking it.
(c) His father's potent French wines.
(d) His family's snobbery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the Corey ladies lost when they first meet the Laphams?

2. What business idea does Tom Corey first propose to Silas Lapham in Chapter Six?

3. Which relative has Tom Corey consulted in addition to his father about the merits of joining Lapham's mineral paint business?

4. In Chapter Three, who do Silas and Persis Lapham run into while visiting the construction site of their new home?

5. In Chapter Two, who sends Persis Lapham a lithographed circular soliciting for donations to a charity?

(see the answer key)

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