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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 fret about after receiving Anna Corey's dinner invitation?
(a) How to impress the Coreys.
(b) Whether to attend the dinner or not.
(c) What she and her family should wear to the dinner.
(d) What carriage her family should take to the dinner.

2. Who does Persis Lapham find crying in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Nanny Corey.
(b) Irene.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Penelope.

3. When Irene refuses to join Tom Corey and her family for tea in Chapter Six, what is her mother's reaction?
(a) Persis slaps Irene.
(b) Persis forces Irene to join everyone for tea regardless.
(c) Persis insists that Irene join everyone in the parlor later.
(d) Persis locks Irene in her room.

4. What do the Lapham sisters think their father does too much when Tom Corey visits the site of their new house in Chapter Four and receives a tour of the Beacon Street house from Silas?
(a) Brags.
(b) Drinks.
(c) Eats.
(d) Talks.

5. Who comes to the Lapham home on Nankeen Square to see if Silas Lapham is ill when Lapham doesn't show up at work?
(a) Zerilla Dewey.
(b) Tom Corey.
(c) Lapham's bookkeeper.
(d) Milton Rogers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which member of the Corey family does Silas Lapham tell Persis he wants to meet?

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

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

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

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