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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Irene Lapham when Anna Corey visits the Laphams in Chapter Twelve?
(a) Visiting an old friend in Salem.
(b) Visiting Silas at his office.
(c) Away from home to get a book.
(d) In her bedroom ill with a fever.

2. Who saves Lapham's life during the Civil War by taking a bullet meant for Lapham?
(a) Jim Millon.
(b) Bromfield Corey.
(c) Milton Rogers.
(d) Persis Lapham's father, George.

3. What does Irene buy at the apothecary?
(a) Medication for an upset stomach.
(b) Aspirin for a headache.
(c) A powder to help her sleep.
(d) Medication for depression.

4. How do Bromfield and Anna Corey respond to the news about Tom's romance?
(a) They offer to pay for the wedding.
(b) They threaten to disinherit Tom.
(c) They don't like it but resign themselves to it.
(d) They try to interest Tom in a more aristocratic bride.

5. 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.

6. What is the result of Milton Rogers's deadline for bringing the potential buyers of the mills to Silas Lapham's office?
(a) Milton does not produce the English men.
(b) Milton brings the buyers but they decide not to buy.
(c) Milton skips town and can't be located.
(d) Milton brings the buyers and they buy the mills.

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

8. When Tom Corey tells his mother about his romance, who does his mother initially believe he loves?
(a) Moll Millon.
(b) Zerilla Dewey.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Irene.

9. What might Silas Lapham have to sell because of the financial trouble he is into with Rogers?
(a) His Back Bay home.
(b) His cottage.
(c) His paint business.
(d) His wife's jewelry.

10. What novel do Tom Corey and Penelope discuss when Tom sees that Penelope is reading it?
(a) Middlemarch.
(b) Tears, Idle Tears.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) Little Women.

11. How long does Silas Lapham travel out west at the beginning of Chapter Twenty One?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) A month.
(d) A year.

12. What does Charles Bellingham say is the most popular thing to put into a novel?
(a) Self sacrifice.
(b) Romance.
(c) Murder.
(d) Mysteries and secrets.

13. 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.

14. When Anna Corey visits the Laphams in Chapter Twelve, how does Mrs. Lapham feel about the visit?
(a) Nervous and uncomfortable and afraid of Mrs. Corey.
(b) Pleased Mrs. Corey finally recognizes her.
(c) That it can't end soon enough because she hates Anna.
(d) Convinced it means the Coreys approve of Irene.

15. In Chapter Seventeen, who does Silas Lapham tell his wife he found at their house the previous night?
(a) Zerilla Dewey.
(b) Milton Rogers.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the competition found that allows them to undersell Silas Lapham?

2. Who does Persis Lapham find crying in Chapter Seventeen?

3. Who sends Irene the Texas newspaper clipping she thought had come from Tom Corey?

4. What does Tom Corey try unsuccessfully to convince Penelope of at the end of Chapter Nineteen?

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

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