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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XVI, XVII and XVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Persis Lapham try unsuccessfully to get her husband to understand at the end of Chapter Nine?
(a) The Coreys think they are higher socially than the Laphams.
(b) The Coreys hate Silas.
(c) Irene loves Tom.
(d) The Coreys hate Irene.

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

3. Who does Silas Lapham want to talk with his wife about in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Jim Millon.
(b) Irene.
(c) Milton Rogers.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

4. Why does Penelope greet Tom Corey when he visits her home in Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Her father is not home at the time.
(b) Irene sends her downstairs as an emissary.
(c) Irene is ill.
(d) Tom asks for her.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Anna Corey think of her son going into Lapham's mineral paint business?

4. What does Nanny Corey think the novel discussed at her family's dinner party should have been called?

5. What does Charles Bellingham say is the most popular thing to put into a novel?

(see the answer key)

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