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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first discovers Silas Lapham's paint mine?
(a) Silas Lapham's brother, Willard.
(b) Silas Lapham.
(c) Persis Lapham.
(d) Silas Lapham's father.

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

3. What does Tom Corey tell his mother the Laphams like to do more than read?
(a) Sail.
(b) Talk.
(c) Eat.
(d) Play tennis.

4. What does Silas Lapham tell Persis he doesn't like about Tom Corey?
(a) Tom is too young to marry one of their daughters.
(b) Tom lives off his father instead of supporting himself.
(c) Tom doesn't show respect for the mineral paint business.
(d) Tom is snobbish and condescending.

5. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?
(a) Little Women.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Nicholas Nickleby.
(d) Middlemarch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Silas Lapham decide to build a new more fashionable home?

3. What business idea does Tom Corey first propose to Silas Lapham in Chapter Six?

4. Why does Bromfield not think Tom will stick with the paint business long?

5. What subject does Tom avoid while talking with his mother in Chapter Eight?

(see the answer key)

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