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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first discovers Silas Lapham's paint mine?
(a) Silas Lapham's brother, Willard.
(b) Persis Lapham.
(c) Silas Lapham.
(d) Silas Lapham's father.

2. 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 Paint Sellers of America series.
(c) The Business Men of Vermont series.
(d) The Rich Men of New York series.

3. While conversing with his mother in Chapter Eight, what does Tom Corey tell his mother about Penelope Lapham?
(a) That she's pretty.
(b) That she's smart.
(c) That she's humorous.
(d) That she's fashionable.

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

5. Which of the following statements does not describe Irene Lapham?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She prefers housekeeping to studying.
(c) She spends her leisure time shopping
(d) She is an intellectual with a college degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Irene ask Tom Corey to suggest for the new room in the Laphams' Beacon Street home?

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

3. What business does Persis Lapham tell her husband she thinks Tom Corey will never go into?

4. What is Anna Corey's reaction when her husband Bromfield tells her their son has decided to join Silas Lapham's paint business?

5. Where does Bromfield Corey visit Silas Lapham in Chapter Eleven?

(see the answer key)

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