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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. What does Persis Lapham fret about after receiving Anna Corey's dinner invitation?
(a) How to impress the Coreys.
(b) What she and her family should wear to the dinner.
(c) Whether to attend the dinner or not.
(d) What carriage her family should take to the dinner.

2. What note does Penelope send to Tom Corey at the beginning of Chapter Twenty Two?
(a) A note declaring her love for him.
(b) A note telling him to not come see her any more.
(c) A note begging him to elope with her.
(d) A note begging him to court her sister instead.

3. What novel do Tom Corey and Penelope discuss when Tom sees that Penelope is reading it?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Middlemarch.
(c) Tears, Idle Tears.
(d) Little Women.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Irene refuses to join Tom Corey and her family for tea in Chapter Six, what is her mother's reaction?

2. In Chapter Nine, while Tom Corey discusses Middlemarch with her, with what does Irene seem engrossed?

3. What does Persis Lapham try unsuccessfully to get her husband to understand at the end of Chapter Nine?

4. In Chapter Nine, who thinks the Lapham family is below the Corey family?

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

(see the answer key)

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