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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the Laphams traveling when they meet another Boston family, the rich and fashionable Coreys?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Canada.

2. What business does Persis Lapham tell her husband she thinks Tom Corey will never go into?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Real estate.
(c) Medicine.
(d) The mineral paint business.

3. What newspaper has sent reporter Bartley Hubard to interview Silas Lapham in Chapter One?
(a) The Globe.
(b) The Chronicle.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The Events.

4. Where was Silas Lapham born?
(a) On a farm in Vermont.
(b) In a Philadelphia slum.
(c) On a boat on the Mississippi River.
(d) In New Orleans.

5. How long has the Lapham family lived in their Boston home?
(a) One month.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) One week.
(d) Twenty five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Silas Lapham name his top brand of paint?

2. What business idea does Tom Corey first propose to Silas Lapham in Chapter Six?

3. In Chapter Four, with whom does Silas Lapham sit in the frame of a bay window at the construction site of the family's new Beacon Street house?

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

5. What does Persis Lapham do for a living before she marries Silas?

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