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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 Irene ask Tom Corey to suggest for the new room in the Laphams' Beacon Street home?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Art work.
(c) A piano.
(d) Books.

2. In Chapter Five, what business does Tom Corey tell his father he wants to go into?
(a) Real estate.
(b) Law.
(c) Lapham's mineral paint business.
(d) Banking.

3. What is Anna Corey's reaction when her husband Bromfield tells her their son has decided to join Silas Lapham's paint business?
(a) She insists Bromfield should have stopped the boy.
(b) She demands that Tom leave Lapham's employ at once.
(c) She faints.
(d) She is elated Tom will be doing honest work.

4. What is unusual in the eyes of the Coreys about the beverages the Coreys drink with dinner?
(a) They drink ice water instead of tea, coffee, or wine.
(b) They drink buttermilk.
(c) They drink moonshine whiskey.
(d) They drink lemonade.

5. Why does Silas Lapham stay home the day after Bromfield Corey's visit in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Persis Lapham is ill and needs his assistance at home.
(b) He is having an affair with Zerilla Dewey.
(c) He's too excited and upset by the visit to go to work.
(d) He has caught pneumonia from Bromfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anna Corey think of the Lapham family borrowing books from the public library?

2. What does Tom Corey tell his father in Chapter Eleven that Mrs. Lapham has never done, a fact the Coreys find unusual given the Lapham wealth?

3. Which of the following statements is not a way Tom Corey describes the Lapham girls to his mother?

4. Why does Bromfield not think Tom will stick with the paint business long?

5. Why does Bromfield Corey think rich girls would offer his son a greater chance at a quiet life than poor girls?

(see the answer key)

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