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

2. Who comes to the Lapham home on Nankeen Square to see if Silas Lapham is ill when Lapham doesn't show up at work?
(a) Tom Corey.
(b) Zerilla Dewey.
(c) Lapham's bookkeeper.
(d) Milton Rogers.

3. What does Anna Corey wish her son had done instead of join Silas Lapham's paint business?
(a) Get married.
(b) Write a novel.
(c) Take a European tour like Bromfield did in his youth.
(d) Join the army.

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

5. What does Anna Corey think of her son going into Lapham's mineral paint business?
(a) She thinks his father should do the same.
(b) She supports the idea.
(c) She finds the idea distasteful.
(d) She prefers he start his own company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saves Lapham's life during the Civil War by taking a bullet meant for Lapham?

2. On what street is the Lapham family's Boston home located?

3. What does Nanny Corey think the novel discussed at her family's dinner party should have been called?

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

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

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