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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Irene Lapham and Tom Corey talk about all evening when Tom visits the Lapham home in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Mineral paints.
(d) Middlemarch.

2. What physical ailment has Irene developed in Chapter Six?
(a) Indigestion.
(b) A cold.
(c) A broken arm.
(d) A headache.

3. What does Silas Lapham send Bartley Hubbard's wife as a present at the end of Chapter One?
(a) A bouquet of red roses.
(b) A bottle of French perfume.
(c) A new horse.
(d) Jars of his Persis Brand paint.

4. Which of the following statements does not describe Irene Lapham's appearance?
(a) Her eyes are at once intense and tender.
(b) She has red hair like her father.
(c) She has blue eyes.
(d) She has a dark complexion and curly hair.

5. Why hasn't Bromfield Corey seen Bartley Hubbard's article in The Events about Silas Lapham?
(a) Bromfield has been out of the country.
(b) Bromfield is illiterate.
(c) Bromfield only reads the Daily Adviser.
(d) Bromfield only reads the society page.

6. In what city does the novel open?
(a) Paris.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

7. What is unusual in the eyes of the Coreys about the beverages the Coreys drink with dinner?
(a) They drink lemonade.
(b) They drink buttermilk.
(c) They drink ice water instead of tea, coffee, or wine.
(d) They drink moonshine whiskey.

8. Where are the Laphams traveling when they meet another Boston family, the rich and fashionable Coreys?
(a) Canada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

9. In Chapter Four, with whom does Silas Lapham sit in the frame of a bay window at the construction site of the family's new Beacon Street house?
(a) Mr. Sewell.
(b) His wife.
(c) His daughters.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

10. What business idea does Tom Corey propose to Silas Lapham that meets with Lapham's approval?
(a) Lowering the price on his products.
(b) Taking the paint to foreign countries like Mexico.
(c) Increasing the company's advertising.
(d) Adding a cheaper line of paint.

11. What does Persis Lapham do for a living before she marries Silas?
(a) She teaches school.
(b) She raises thoroughbred horses.
(c) She runs a restaurant.
(d) She owns a cattle ranch.

12. In Chapter Two, who sends Persis Lapham a lithographed circular soliciting for donations to a charity?
(a) The governor's wife.
(b) Her daughter's teacher.
(c) Mr. Sewell.
(d) Anna Corey.

13. To where does Silas Lapham want to take Bromfield Corey for a fish dinner?
(a) His Vermont farm.
(b) His home in Nankeen Square.
(c) Tafts.
(d) A French restaurant in Manhattan.

14. Whose death brings sorrow to the early years of the Lapham marriage?
(a) Persis Lapham's mother.
(b) The Laphams' son.
(c) Silas Lapham's mother.
(d) Silas Lapham's father.

15. In Chapter Five, what business does Tom Corey tell his father he wants to go into?
(a) Banking.
(b) Law.
(c) Lapham's mineral paint business.
(d) Real estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the Lapham family is left alone with Tom Corey when he visits the site of their new Beacon Street house in Chapter Four?

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

3. What newspaper has sent reporter Bartley Hubard to interview Silas Lapham in Chapter One?

4. Which member of the Lapham family has been reading the novel Tom Corey sees on the Lapham parlor table?

5. In Chapter Nine, while Tom Corey discusses Middlemarch with her, with what does Irene seem engrossed?

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