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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX and X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Silas Lapham credit for his Christian upbringing?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His older sister.
(d) His father.

2. What do the Lapham sisters make fun of when discussing Tom Corey at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Tom's big feet.
(b) Tom's freckles.
(c) Tom's short stature.
(d) Tom's hair and nose.

3. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?
(a) Tom Sawyer.
(b) Little Women.
(c) Middlemarch.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

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

5. What does Anna Corey think of the Lapham family borrowing books from the public library?
(a) That it makes them common.
(b) That it shows their ignorance of literature.
(c) That it shows theit interest in literature.
(d) That it shows how frugal they are.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following statements is not a way Tom Corey describes Silas Lapham to his father?

3. Which member of the Lapham family has been reading the novel Tom Corey sees on the Lapham parlor table?

4. What does Persis Lapham try unsuccessfully to get her husband to understand at the end of Chapter Nine?

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

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