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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 only reads the Daily Adviser.
(c) Bromfield only reads the society page.
(d) Bromfield is illiterate.

2. What does Tom Corey overhear Silas Lapham advising his pretty typist to do?
(a) Get a new job.
(b) Try his family doctor for her insomnia.
(c) Move to a new part of town.
(d) Get a divorce.

3. Which member of the Lapham family has been reading the novel Tom Corey sees on the Lapham parlor table?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Irene.
(c) Persis.
(d) Silas.

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

5. Who does Silas Lapham credit for his Christian upbringing?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His older sister.
(d) His father.

6. Who do Mrs. Lapham and Penelope note that Tom Corey never mentions to either of them during his visits?
(a) Mr. Sewell.
(b) Silas.
(c) Irene.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

7. What does Persis Lapham try unsuccessfully to get her husband to understand at the end of Chapter Nine?
(a) The Coreys think they are higher socially than the Laphams.
(b) Irene loves Tom.
(c) The Coreys hate Silas.
(d) The Coreys hate Irene.

8. In Chapter Nine, who suggests inviting the Laphams to dinner?
(a) Nanny Corey.
(b) Bromfield Corey.
(c) Mr. Sewell.
(d) Anna Corey.

9. Who comes to the Lapham home on Nankeen Square to see if Silas Lapham is ill when Lapham doesn't show up at work?
(a) Zerilla Dewey.
(b) Lapham's bookkeeper.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Milton Rogers.

10. What does Anna Corey wish her son had done instead of join Silas Lapham's paint business?
(a) Write a novel.
(b) Get married.
(c) Join the army.
(d) Take a European tour like Bromfield did in his youth.

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

12. What does Irene ask Tom Corey to suggest for the new room in the Laphams' Beacon Street home?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Books.
(c) A piano.
(d) Art work.

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

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

15. What subject does Tom avoid while talking with his mother in Chapter Eight?
(a) Penelope Lapham.
(b) Working for a living.
(c) Traveling to Europe.
(d) Irene Lapham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Lapham sisters think their father does too much when Tom Corey visits the site of their new house in Chapter Four and receives a tour of the Beacon Street house from Silas?

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

3. 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?

4. In Chapter Two, who sends Persis Lapham a lithographed circular soliciting for donations to a charity?

5. Which of the following statements does not appear in the description of Silas Lapham that Bartley Hubbard writes for his newspaper article?

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