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

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

3. Which of the following statements does not describe Irene Lapham?
(a) She prefers housekeeping to studying.
(b) She is beautiful.
(c) She is an intellectual with a college degree.
(d) She spends her leisure time shopping

4. What does Anna Corey think of the Lapham family borrowing books from the public library?
(a) That it shows theit interest in literature.
(b) That it makes them common.
(c) That it shows their ignorance of literature.
(d) That it shows how frugal they are.

5. Who meets the boat with a carriage and driver to take Silas Lapham and Tom Corey home?
(a) Persis Lapham.
(b) Irene Lapham.
(c) Penelope Lapham.
(d) Mr. Sewell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business idea does Tom Corey propose to Silas Lapham that meets with Lapham's approval?

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

3. What does Silas Lapham wear to the Corey dinner that no other man there wears?

4. Why does Silas Lapham stay home the day after Bromfield Corey's visit in Chapter Eleven?

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

(see the answer key)

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