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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. Who comes to the Lapham home on Nankeen Square to see if Silas Lapham is ill when Lapham doesn't show up at work?
(a) Tom Corey.
(b) Lapham's bookkeeper.
(c) Zerilla Dewey.
(d) Milton Rogers.

2. When Tom Corey approaches Silas Lapham about joining his business, how does Lapham try to treat young Corey?
(a) Like a son.
(b) Like just another worker seeking employment.
(c) Like a future son-in-law.
(d) Like a good friend.

3. Where does Bromfield Corey visit Silas Lapham in Chapter Eleven?
(a) At the Taft seafood restaurant.
(b) At Lapham's office.
(c) At the construction site of Lapham's Beacon Street home.
(d) At Lapham's Vermont farm.

4. What business idea does Tom Corey first propose to Silas Lapham in Chapter Six?
(a) Investing capital in Lapham's company.
(b) Expanding into the construction business.
(c) A partnership in Lapham's company.
(d) Starting a branch of Lapham's company in Maine.

5. In Chapter Three, who do Silas and Persis Lapham run into while visiting the construction site of their new home?
(a) Bromfield Corey.
(b) Milton Rogers, Lapham's former partner.
(c) Persis Lapham's aged mother.
(d) Mr. Sewell.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Silas Lapham stay home the day after Bromfield Corey's visit in Chapter Eleven?

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

4. Who meets the boat with a carriage and driver to take Silas Lapham and Tom Corey home?

5. Which guest at the Coreys' dinner party thinks novels are "psychical suicide" and give too much importance to love, love-making, and marriage?

(see the answer key)

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