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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tom Corey comes to the Lapham home for a second visit in Chapter Eleven, about whom does he ask Irene?
(a) Silas.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Mr. Sewell.
(d) Persis.

2. What might Silas Lapham have to sell because of the financial trouble he is into with Rogers?
(a) His cottage.
(b) His paint business.
(c) His Back Bay home.
(d) His wife's jewelry.

3. Who does Persis Lapham find crying in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Irene.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Nanny Corey.
(d) Tom Corey.

4. Why does Anna Corey think Tom's marriage to Irene Lapham would be worse than his joining the Lapham paint business?
(a) Irene is dull.
(b) Persis Lapham would be his mother-in-law.
(c) Irene is not pretty.
(d) Silas Lapham would be his father-in-law.

5. What does Silas Lapham wear to the Corey dinner that no other man there wears?
(a) Gloves.
(b) A hat.
(c) A cravat.
(d) A wedding ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe Irene Lapham's appearance?

2. What does Silas Lapham send Bartley Hubbard's wife as a present at the end of Chapter One?

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

4. What novel do Tom Corey and Penelope discuss when Tom sees that Penelope is reading it?

5. Where does Bromfield Corey visit Silas Lapham in Chapter Eleven?

(see the answer key)

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