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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. What does Silas Lapham tell Persis he doesn't like about Tom Corey?
(a) Tom lives off his father instead of supporting himself.
(b) Tom doesn't show respect for the mineral paint business.
(c) Tom is snobbish and condescending.
(d) Tom is too young to marry one of their daughters.

2. What do Irene Lapham and Tom Corey talk about all evening when Tom visits the Lapham home in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Middlemarch.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Mineral paints.

3. Why do the Laphams come to believe their home in Boston is in an unfashionable neighborhood?
(a) Their daughters decree that it is.
(b) The fashionable Anna Corey implies that it is.
(c) A newspaper article states that it is.
(d) A fashion magazine tells them it is.

4. What does Persis Lapham do for a living before she marries Silas?
(a) She owns a cattle ranch.
(b) She teaches school.
(c) She runs a restaurant.
(d) She raises thoroughbred horses.

5. What do the Lapham sisters make fun of when discussing Tom Corey at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Tom's big feet.
(b) Tom's short stature.
(c) Tom's hair and nose.
(d) Tom's freckles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anna Corey's reaction when her husband Bromfield tells her their son has decided to join Silas Lapham's paint business?

2. Where does Silas Lapham decide to build a new more fashionable home?

3. What kind of gambling does Silas Lapham tell his wife he has been doing in Chapter Ten?

4. When Tom Corey approaches Silas Lapham about joining his business, how does Lapham try to treat young Corey?

5. Silas Lapham believes Tom Corey's sole interest is the mineral paint business, but what does Persis Lapham believe has also captured Tom's interest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Penelope react to Tom Corey's visits in Chapter Eleven, and what does her behavior indicate?

2. Why does Silas Lapham decide to build a new house?

3. What do Tom Corey and his father find unusual about the beverages the Laphams drink and Mrs. Lapham's social entertaining?

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

5. What kind of girl does Bromfield Corey think his son Tom should marry, and how do the Lapham girls compare to Bromfield's ideal daughter-in-law?

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

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

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. Describe Tom Corey's discussion with his mother in Chapter Eight about his entering Silas Lapham's paint business.

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

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