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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. 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) His father's potent French wines.
(c) Serving wine to a man not used to drinking it.
(d) His family's snobbery.

2. When Irene refuses to join Tom Corey and her family for tea in Chapter Six, what is her mother's reaction?
(a) Persis insists that Irene join everyone in the parlor later.
(b) Persis locks Irene in her room.
(c) Persis slaps Irene.
(d) Persis forces Irene to join everyone for tea regardless.

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

4. What subject does Tom avoid while talking with his mother in Chapter Eight?
(a) Irene Lapham.
(b) Penelope Lapham.
(c) Traveling to Europe.
(d) Working for a living.

5. After giving Tom Corey a history of the paint, where does Silas Lapham suggest the young man come to finish their business talk?
(a) A restaurant in downtown Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Bar Harbor.
(d) The Lapham cottage in Nantasket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to the Lapham home on Nankeen Square to see if Silas Lapham is ill when Lapham doesn't show up at work?

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

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

4. Where does Tom Corey visit his mother and sisters in Chapter Six?

5. What does Tom Corey tell his father in Chapter Eleven that Mrs. Lapham has never done, a fact the Coreys find unusual given the Lapham wealth?

(see the answer key)

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