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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 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.

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

3. What business idea does Tom Corey first propose to Silas Lapham in Chapter Six?
(a) A partnership in Lapham's company.
(b) Starting a branch of Lapham's company in Maine.
(c) Expanding into the construction business.
(d) Investing capital in Lapham's company.

4. 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?
(a) She has never attended the opera.
(b) She has never given a dinner.
(c) She has never patronized a charity.
(d) She has never bought a real diamond necklace.

5. What do Irene Lapham and Tom Corey talk about all evening when Tom visits the Lapham home in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Middlemarch.
(b) Mineral paints.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Penelope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements accurately describes the financial situation of the Lapham family and the Corey family?

2. In their determination not to be the first guests to arrive at the Coreys' dinner party, what do the Laphams end up being?

3. Which member of the Lapham family has been reading the novel Tom Corey sees on the Lapham parlor table?

4. 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?

5. Who meets the boat with a carriage and driver to take Silas Lapham and Tom Corey home?

(see the answer key)

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