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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what does Persis Lapham worry Irene will wear herself out?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Grief.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Work.

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

4. Who does Persis Lapham say was never equal to Tom Corey?
(a) Silas Lapham.
(b) Charles Bellingham.
(c) Irene.
(d) Penelope.

5. What architect is building the Laphams new house?
(a) Seymour.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Wright.
(d) Crandall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silas Lapham tell Persis he doesn't like about Tom Corey?

2. How old is Silas Lapham in Chapter One?

3. While conversing with his mother in Chapter Eight, what does Tom Corey tell his mother about Penelope Lapham?

4. Where are the Laphams traveling when they meet another Boston family, the rich and fashionable Coreys?

5. Who first discovers Silas Lapham's paint mine?

(see the answer key)

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