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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. What does the note that Persis receives in Chapter Twenty Six tell her to do?
(a) Buy stock in the West Virginia paint company.
(b) Ask her husband about the girl in his office.
(c) Help Penelope marry Tom Corry.
(d) Leave her husband.

2. When Milton Rogers comes to visit Silas Lapham at the office in Chapter Twenty One and says he thought the railroad would pay a fair price for the mills, what does Lapham accuse Rogers of doing?
(a) Trying to steal Persis from him.
(b) Trying to ru in his business.
(c) Trying to marry Irene.
(d) Lying.

3. What does Persis Lapham find in Chapter Twenty Two when her husband drops it on the floor?
(a) A love note from Zerilla Dewey.
(b) A suicide note.
(c) A note with "Mrs. M" and some figures written on it.
(d) His will.

4. Who refers to Silas Lapham as General Lapham instead of by his true title of Colonel Lapham?
(a) Charles Bellingham.
(b) Anna Corey.
(c) Mr. Sewell.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

5. Which of the Laphams is happiest about the Coreys' dinner invitation?
(a) Irene.
(b) Silas.
(c) Persis.
(d) Penelope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe Silas Lapham's interactions with Zerilla Dewey and her mother, Moll Millon, in Chapter Twenty Three?

2. Why does Penelope Lapham think Tom Corey and Irene Lapham need to spend more time alone?

3. What is Silas Lapham's response when Persis asks him who Mrs. M is?

4. What kind of business does Silas Lapham buy before his paint business takes off?

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

(see the answer key)

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