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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVI and XXVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tom Corey approaches Silas Lapham about joining his business, how does Lapham try to treat young Corey?
(a) Like a future son-in-law.
(b) Like a son.
(c) Like a good friend.
(d) Like just another worker seeking employment.

2. How does the elegant and classically designed Corey home seem to the Laphams when they enter it?
(a) Bare.
(b) Boring.
(c) Old-fashioned.
(d) Overly fancy.

3. Which of the following statements does not describe Silas Lapham's interactions with Zerilla Dewey and her mother, Moll Millon, in Chapter Twenty Three?
(a) Zerilla needs help dealing with her drunken husband.
(b) Moll Millon demands money from Lapham.
(c) Lapham tells Zerilla's husband to find work.
(d) Zerilla and Moll take Silas and Persis out to lunch.

4. What does Penelope write to Tom Corey?
(a) That she's going to become a nun.
(b) To come see her at once.
(c) To not come see her until she says it's okay.
(d) That she is engaged to another man.

5. What does Anna Corey think of the Lapham family borrowing books from the public library?
(a) That it shows their ignorance of literature.
(b) That it makes them common.
(c) That it shows theit interest in literature.
(d) That it shows how frugal they are.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action is Silas Lapham driven to in Chapter Twenty Seven to resolve his financial difficulties?

2. What does Charles Bellingham say is the most popular thing to put into a novel?

3. When Tom Corey comes to the Lapham home for a second visit in Chapter Eleven, about whom does he ask Irene?

4. Where does Tom Corey find employment when he leaves Lapham's business?

5. In Chapter Seventeen, who does Silas Lapham tell his wife he found at their house the previous night?

(see the answer key)

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