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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. Why do the Laphams come to believe their home in Boston is in an unfashionable neighborhood?
(a) The fashionable Anna Corey implies that it is.
(b) Their daughters decree that it is.
(c) A newspaper article states that it is.
(d) A fashion magazine tells them it is.

2. What kind of business does Silas Lapham buy before his paint business takes off?
(a) A saloon.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A bank.
(d) A restaurant.

3. Why does Persis Lapham call her husband the Colonel?
(a) Silas Lapham was a colonel in the Revolutionary War.
(b) Silas Lapham is rigid and disciplined like an army officer.
(c) Silas Lapham reminds her of her father, an army colonel.
(d) Silas Lapham was a colonel in the Civil War.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After giving Tom Corey a history of the paint, where does Silas Lapham suggest the young man come to finish their business talk?

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

3. Which member of the Corey family is ill when they first meet the Laphams?

4. 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?

5. Where are the Laphams traveling when they meet another Boston family, the rich and fashionable Coreys?

(see the answer key)

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