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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. Who meets the boat with a carriage and driver to take Silas Lapham and Tom Corey home?
(a) Mr. Sewell.
(b) Persis Lapham.
(c) Irene Lapham.
(d) Penelope Lapham.

2. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?
(a) Nicholas Nickleby.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Middlemarch.
(d) Little Women.

3. To what country do Tom Corey and his bride move after their wedding?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Canada.
(d) England.

4. Why does Irene come back from Dubuque?
(a) She is ill.
(b) To marry Tom Corey.
(c) Her uncle tells her of her father's money woes.
(d) She misses her parents.

5. Which of the following statements does not describe Irene Lapham?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She spends her leisure time shopping
(c) She prefers housekeeping to studying.
(d) She is an intellectual with a college degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says she will never live in the Lapham's new house on Back Bay?

2. What does Nanny Corey think the novel discussed at her family's dinner party should have been called?

3. What have the Corey ladies lost when they first meet the Laphams?

4. What does Tom Corey tell his mother the Laphams like to do more than read?

5. What business does Persis Lapham tell her husband she thinks Tom Corey will never go into?

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