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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 might Silas Lapham have to sell because of the financial trouble he is into with Rogers?
(a) His paint business.
(b) His wife's jewelry.
(c) His cottage.
(d) His Back Bay home.

2. Who does Persis Lapham say was never equal to Tom Corey?
(a) Irene.
(b) Silas Lapham.
(c) Charles Bellingham.
(d) Penelope.

3. To how much does Persis Lapham limit her husband's spending on their new home?
(a) Fifty thousand dollars.
(b) One hundred thousand dollars.
(c) Ten thousand dollars.
(d) One million dollars.

4. How does the elegant and classically designed Corey home seem to the Laphams when they enter it?
(a) Boring.
(b) Old-fashioned.
(c) Overly fancy.
(d) Bare.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anna Corey wish her son had done instead of join Silas Lapham's paint business?

2. What physical ailment has Irene developed in Chapter Six?

3. What does Tom Corey overhear Silas Lapham advising his pretty typist to do?

4. Where was Silas Lapham born?

5. What does Anna Corey mean when she says there is no need for Tom to earn a living either through work or marriage?

(see the answer key)

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