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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 do Irene Lapham and Tom Corey talk about all evening when Tom visits the Lapham home in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Middlemarch.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Mineral paints.
(d) Getting married.

2. What is Anna Corey's reaction when her husband Bromfield tells her their son has decided to join Silas Lapham's paint business?
(a) She demands that Tom leave Lapham's employ at once.
(b) She faints.
(c) She is elated Tom will be doing honest work.
(d) She insists Bromfield should have stopped the boy.

3. Which member of the Lapham family refuses to attend the Coreys' dinner party?
(a) Silas.
(b) Persis.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Irene.

4. Who tells Tom Corey of Silas Lapham's potential financial ruin?
(a) Persis Lapham.
(b) Zeirlla Dewey.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Walker, Lapham's bookkeeper.

5. In what series of articles is the newspaper going to feature an article on Silas Lapham?
(a) The Business Men of Vermont series.
(b) The Paint Sellers of America series.
(c) The Rich Men of New York series.
(d) The Solid Men of Boston series.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Nine, what is Silas Lapham fond of letting the public know?

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

4. Which of the following statements is not a way Tom Corey describes the Lapham girls to his mother?

5. What subject does Persis urgently need to discuss with Silas in Chapter Eighteen?

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