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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 accurately describes the financial situation of the Lapham family and the Corey family?
(a) Both families have an equal amount of money.
(b) The Laphams have a lot more money than the Coreys.
(c) The Laphams have a little more money than the Coreys.
(d) The Coreys have a lot more money than the Laphams.

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

3. To where does Silas Lapham take his wife and daughter in Chapter Twenty Two to cheer them all up?
(a) London.
(b) The family's Vermont farm.
(c) New York.
(d) The theater.

4. 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 is elated Tom will be doing honest work.
(b) She faints.
(c) She insists Bromfield should have stopped the boy.
(d) She demands that Tom leave Lapham's employ at once.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following statements does not describe Silas Lapham's interactions with Zerilla Dewey and her mother, Moll Millon, in Chapter Twenty Three?

3. From where do the Corey women return at the beginning of Chapter Twelve?

4. What is unusual in the eyes of the Coreys about the beverages the Coreys drink with dinner?

5. With what keen sense does Nanny Corey read novels?

(see the answer key)

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