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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. On what street do the Coreys live?
(a) Main Street.
(b) Kennedy Lane.
(c) Bellingham Place.
(d) Beacon Street.

2. What does Tom Corey overhear Silas Lapham advising his pretty typist to do?
(a) Get a new job.
(b) Move to a new part of town.
(c) Try his family doctor for her insomnia.
(d) Get a divorce.

3. Which member of the Corey family is ill when they first meet the Laphams?
(a) Anna Corey.
(b) Nanny Corey.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

4. How does the elegant and classically designed Corey home seem to the Laphams when they enter it?
(a) Old-fashioned.
(b) Bare.
(c) Boring.
(d) Overly fancy.

5. What does Nanny Corey think the novel discussed at her family's dinner party should have been called?
(a) Heaven, Sweet Heaven.
(b) Boredom, Eternal Boredom.
(c) Sin, Blatant Sin.
(d) Slop, Silly Slop.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Tom Corey comes to the Lapham home for a second visit in Chapter Eleven, about whom does he ask Irene?

3. What is Anna Corey's reaction when her husband Bromfield tells her their son has decided to join Silas Lapham's paint business?

4. Where are the Laphams traveling when they meet another Boston family, the rich and fashionable Coreys?

5. What do Irene Lapham and Tom Corey talk about all evening when Tom visits the Lapham home in Chapter Eleven?

(see the answer key)

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