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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. In Chapter Two, who sends Persis Lapham a lithographed circular soliciting for donations to a charity?
(a) The governor's wife.
(b) Anna Corey.
(c) Her daughter's teacher.
(d) Mr. Sewell.

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

3. 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) Get a divorce.
(d) Try his family doctor for her insomnia.

4. When Tom Corey approaches Silas Lapham about joining his business, how does Lapham try to treat young Corey?
(a) Like just another worker seeking employment.
(b) Like a good friend.
(c) Like a future son-in-law.
(d) Like a son.

5. Why hasn't Bromfield Corey seen Bartley Hubbard's article in The Events about Silas Lapham?
(a) Bromfield has been out of the country.
(b) Bromfield only reads the Daily Adviser.
(c) Bromfield is illiterate.
(d) Bromfield only reads the society page.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Laphams come to believe their home in Boston is in an unfashionable neighborhood?

2. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?

3. At the beginning of Chapter Eleven, who does Tom Corey suggest his father meet?

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

5. Why does Anna Corey think Tom's marriage to Irene Lapham would be worse than his joining the Lapham paint business?

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