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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. How many daughters do Silas and Persis Lapham have?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. What does Anna Corey wish her son had done instead of join Silas Lapham's paint business?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Get married.
(c) Take a European tour like Bromfield did in his youth.
(d) Write a novel.

3. 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.

4. Which member of the Lapham family is left alone with Tom Corey when he visits the site of their new Beacon Street house in Chapter Four?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Persis.
(c) Silas.
(d) Irene.

5. Why hasn't Bromfield Corey seen Bartley Hubbard's article in The Events about Silas Lapham?
(a) Bromfield is illiterate.
(b) Bromfield has been out of the country.
(c) Bromfield only reads the society page.
(d) Bromfield only reads the Daily Adviser.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Lapham sisters make fun of when discussing Tom Corey at the end of Chapter Four?

2. Who do Mrs. Lapham and Penelope note that Tom Corey never mentions to either of them during his visits?

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

4. How does the elegant and classically designed Corey home seem to the Laphams when they enter it?

5. On what street do the Coreys live?

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