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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV and XV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual in the eyes of the Coreys about the beverages the Coreys drink with dinner?
(a) They drink buttermilk.
(b) They drink ice water instead of tea, coffee, or wine.
(c) They drink moonshine whiskey.
(d) They drink lemonade.

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

3. Where does Tom Corey visit his mother and sisters in Chapter Six?
(a) Cape Cod.
(b) Bar Harbour.
(c) Florida.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. What is Anna Corey's reaction when her husband Bromfield tells her their son has decided to join Silas Lapham's paint business?
(a) She faints.
(b) She insists Bromfield should have stopped the boy.
(c) She demands that Tom leave Lapham's employ at once.
(d) She is elated Tom will be doing honest work.

5. 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) Heaven, Sweet Heaven.
(d) Sin, Blatant Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical ailment has Irene developed in Chapter Six?

2. Who comes to the Lapham home on Nankeen Square to see if Silas Lapham is ill when Lapham doesn't show up at work?

3. In their determination not to be the first guests to arrive at the Coreys' dinner party, what do the Laphams end up being?

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

5. What does Tom Corey tell his father in Chapter Eleven that Mrs. Lapham has never done, a fact the Coreys find unusual given the Lapham wealth?

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