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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXI.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Milton Rogers claim might want to buy the mills?
(a) The Coreys.
(b) Some English investors.
(c) An Italian.
(d) A Frenchman.

3. Who does Tom Corey tell Penelope he loves?
(a) Irene.
(b) Zerilla Dewey.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Moll Millon.

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

5. In Chapter Nine, who thinks the Lapham family is below the Corey family?
(a) Bromfield Corey.
(b) Irene Lapham.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Silas Lapham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might Silas Lapham have to sell because of the financial trouble he is into with Rogers?

2. What does Irene give Penelope after learning the truth about Tom Corey's feelings for her?

3. Which of the following statements does not appear in the description of Silas Lapham that Bartley Hubbard writes for his newspaper article?

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

5. Why does Penelope greet Tom Corey when he visits her home in Chapter Sixteen?

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