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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While conversing with his mother in Chapter Eight, what does Tom Corey tell his mother about Penelope Lapham?
(a) That she's smart.
(b) That she's pretty.
(c) That she's fashionable.
(d) That she's humorous.

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

4. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?
(a) Tom Sawyer.
(b) Middlemarch.
(c) Little Women.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

5. To how much does Persis Lapham limit her husband's spending on their new home?
(a) One hundred thousand dollars.
(b) One million dollars.
(c) Fifty thousand dollars.
(d) Ten thousand dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business does Persis Lapham tell her husband she thinks Tom Corey will never go into?

2. What is unusual in the eyes of the Coreys about the beverages the Coreys drink with dinner?

3. What does Tom Corey overhear Silas Lapham advising his pretty typist to do?

4. Which of the following statements accurately describes the financial situation of the Lapham family and the Corey family?

5. What does Silas Lapham send Bartley Hubbard's wife as a present at the end of Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Persis Lapham supported her husband and his business over the years and how does Lapham honor her for her support?

2. How does Tom Corey describe the Lapham family to his mother?

3. How does Silas Lapham feel about having Tom Corey work for him, and how does he feel about Tom's work?

4. Describe how Silas Lapham gets into the paint business.

5. What is Lapham's childhood and family background, and how does this background shape his values?

6. What is Anna Corey's reaction to her son's decision to go into the mineral paint business?

7. What aspect of Tom Corey's life does Silas Lapham disapprove of, and what action does Lapham think it would take to improve Corey?

8. Which Lapham sister does Tom Corey talk about when he visits the Laphams and which one does he not talk about, and what do his conversational tendencies indicate?

9. What arguments does Anna Corey give her husband for opposing their son's marriage to Silas Lapham's daughter?

10. What indication is there in Chapter Ten that Tom Corey might prefer Penelope Lapham over her sister Irene?

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