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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXII and XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements is not a way Tom Corey describes the Lapham girls to his mother?
(a) They're very simple, nice girls.
(b) Penelope is droll and everything that's unexpected.
(c) They're cultured and sophisticated.
(d) Irene is an extraordinary beauty.

2. Which of the following statements does not describe Penelope's opinion of the novel she and Tom Corey discuss?
(a) She wonders why novel characters don't act reasonably.
(b) The characters in the book behave sensibly.
(c) The heroine sacrifices her happiness and the hero's.
(d) The heroine shouldn't let another girl have her beloved.

3. Silas Lapham believes Tom Corey's sole interest is the mineral paint business, but what does Persis Lapham believe has also captured Tom's interest?
(a) Silas Lapham's work ethic.
(b) The Lapham family's hospitality.
(c) Irene.
(d) Penelope.

4. Why do the Laphams come to believe their home in Boston is in an unfashionable neighborhood?
(a) A newspaper article states that it is.
(b) A fashion magazine tells them it is.
(c) Their daughters decree that it is.
(d) The fashionable Anna Corey implies that it is.

5. Where does Silas Lapham decide to build a new more fashionable home?
(a) In London.
(b) His Back Bay property.
(c) On the beach.
(d) Downtown New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper has sent reporter Bartley Hubard to interview Silas Lapham in Chapter One?

2. In Chapter Five, what business does Tom Corey tell his father he wants to go into?

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

4. What note does Penelope send to Tom Corey at the beginning of Chapter Twenty Two?

5. When Milton Rogers comes to visit Silas Lapham at the office in Chapter Twenty One and says he thought the railroad would pay a fair price for the mills, what does Lapham accuse Rogers of doing?

(see the answer key)

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