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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 does Anna Corey describe Penelope Lapham to Bromfield Corey?
(a) Rude and disgusting.
(b) Very shy and timid.
(c) Pretty and sweet.
(d) Sly and completely disagreeable.

2. To where does Silas Lapham want to take Bromfield Corey for a fish dinner?
(a) A French restaurant in Manhattan.
(b) His home in Nankeen Square.
(c) Tafts.
(d) His Vermont farm.

3. What does Silas Lapham send Bartley Hubbard's wife as a present at the end of Chapter One?
(a) A new horse.
(b) A bottle of French perfume.
(c) A bouquet of red roses.
(d) Jars of his Persis Brand paint.

4. How long has the Lapham family lived in their Boston home?
(a) One month.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) One week.
(d) Twenty five years.

5. When Lapham apologizes to Tom Corey at the office after the Coreys' dinner party for his behavior at the party, what does Tom blame for the incident?
(a) His family's snobbery.
(b) Lapham's eagerness to seem friendly.
(c) His father's potent French wines.
(d) Serving wine to a man not used to drinking it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Irene Lapham and Tom Corey talk about all evening when Tom visits the Lapham home in Chapter Eleven?

2. What kind of gambling does Silas Lapham tell his wife he has been doing in Chapter Ten?

3. In Chapter Nine, what is Silas Lapham fond of letting the public know?

4. Why do the Laphams come to believe their home in Boston is in an unfashionable neighborhood?

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

(see the answer key)

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