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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical ailment does Tom Corey have in Chapter Twenty One?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) A broken leg.
(c) An earache.
(d) A headache.

2. What does Silas Lapham wear to the Corey dinner that no other man there wears?
(a) A wedding ring.
(b) A hat.
(c) Gloves.
(d) A cravat.

3. Who does Persis Lapham say was never equal to Tom Corey?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Silas Lapham.
(c) Irene.
(d) Charles Bellingham.

4. To where does Silas Lapham take his wife and daughter in Chapter Twenty Two to cheer them all up?
(a) The theater.
(b) The family's Vermont farm.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

5. Why do Persis and Silas Lapham begin to feel glad their daughter is not engaged to Tom Corey?
(a) A richer man develops an interest in their daughter.
(b) So they won't be embarrassed due to their financial losses.
(c) The Coreys are rude and snobbish.
(d) Tom Corey has bad manners.

6. Who does Persis Lapham find crying in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Nanny Corey.
(b) Irene.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Penelope.

7. Which guest at the Coreys' dinner party thinks novels are "psychical suicide" and give too much importance to love, love-making, and marriage?
(a) Silas Lapham.
(b) Charles Bellingham.
(c) Mr. Sewell, the minister.
(d) Miss Kingsbury.

8. With what does Persis Lapham worry Irene will wear herself out?
(a) Grief.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Work.

9. Which of the following statements does not describe Penelope's opinion of the novel she and Tom Corey discuss?
(a) The characters in the book behave sensibly.
(b) The heroine sacrifices her happiness and the hero's.
(c) The heroine shouldn't let another girl have her beloved.
(d) She wonders why novel characters don't act reasonably.

10. Who tells Tom Corey of Silas Lapham's potential financial ruin?
(a) Walker, Lapham's bookkeeper.
(b) Persis Lapham.
(c) Zeirlla Dewey.
(d) Penelope.

11. What does Silas Lapham accuse Milton Rogers of being?
(a) A fraud.
(b) A murderer.
(c) A thief.
(d) A sinner.

12. What does Tom Corey try unsuccessfully to convince Penelope of at the end of Chapter Nineteen?
(a) That their families have a lot in common.
(b) That Irene is going to find another lover.
(c) That his parents will accept her.
(d) That he and she have done nothing wrong.

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

14. Which of the following statements is not a way Tom Corey describes the Lapham girls to his mother?
(a) Penelope is droll and everything that's unexpected.
(b) Irene is an extraordinary beauty.
(c) They're very simple, nice girls.
(d) They're cultured and sophisticated.

15. Who says she will never live in the Lapham's new house on Back Bay?
(a) Persis.
(b) Persis's mother.
(c) Irene.
(d) Penelope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Persis Lapham fret about after receiving Anna Corey's dinner invitation?

2. With whom is Irene staying in Dubuque?

3. Which of the following statements does not describe the decision Silas Lapham comes to regarding the potential buyers of the mills?

4. When Anna Corey visits the Laphams in Chapter Twelve, how does Mrs. Lapham feel about the visit?

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

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