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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nanny Corey think the novel discussed at her family's dinner party should have been called?
(a) Slop, Silly Slop.
(b) Boredom, Eternal Boredom.
(c) Sin, Blatant Sin.
(d) Heaven, Sweet Heaven.

2. At the beginning of Chapter Twenty Four, who tells Tom Corey how bad Silas Lapham's business troubles are?
(a) Bromfield Corey.
(b) James Bellingham, Tom's maternal uncle.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Silas Lapham.

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

4. What does Silas Lapham decide to shut down in Chapter Twenty Three?
(a) His office.
(b) The Works.
(c) His mills.
(d) His newspaper business.

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

6. Who sends Irene the Texas newspaper clipping she thought had come from Tom Corey?
(a) Uncle James.
(b) Uncle William.
(c) An old friend of Persis.
(d) Tom's Texas friend Stanton.

7. Who defends Milton Rogers to Silas Lapham and refuses to believe Rogers is the swindler he seems to be?
(a) Tom Corey.
(b) Irene.
(c) Bromfield Corey.
(d) Persis.

8. What competition arises for Silas Lapham's paint business?
(a) A West Virginia paint company.
(b) An aluminum siding company.
(c) A Canadian paint company.
(d) A new quick drying paint.

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

10. In their determination not to be the first guests to arrive at the Coreys' dinner party, what do the Laphams end up being?
(a) Half an hour late.
(b) The last guests to arrive.
(c) Too anxious and fretful to enjoy themselves at the party.
(d) The second guests to arrive.

11. How do Anna and Bromfield Corey feel about Penelope's behavior toward Tom?
(a) They think Penelope behaves with great decorum.
(b) They think Penelope is too demonstrative.
(c) They think Penelope is too aloof.
(d) They think Penelope is too clinging.

12. From where do the Corey women return at the beginning of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Bar Harbor.
(b) Portsmouth.
(c) Toronto.
(d) Seattle.

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

14. When Silas Lapham meets with James Bellingham to discuss buying out another company, what does Bellingham suggest that Lapham do instead?
(a) Sell his Back Bay house.
(b) Disappear and assume a new identity.
(c) Declare bankruptcy.
(d) Sell his company.

15. Who does Tom Corey tell Penelope he loves?
(a) Irene.
(b) Zerilla Dewey.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Moll Millon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the elegant and classically designed Corey home seem to the Laphams when they enter it?

2. What is the result of Milton Rogers's deadline for bringing the potential buyers of the mills to Silas Lapham's office?

3. Who does Silas Lapham want to talk with his wife about in Chapter Eighteen?

4. How do Bromfield and Anna Corey respond to the news about Tom's romance?

5. What happens to the new house in Chapter Twenty Four?

(see the answer keys)

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