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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper has sent reporter Bartley Hubard to interview Silas Lapham in Chapter One?
(a) The Events.
(b) The Wall Street Journal.
(c) The Chronicle.
(d) The Globe.

2. For whom does Silas Lapham name his top brand of paint?
(a) His mother, Marie.
(b) His wife, Persis.
(c) His daughter, Irene.
(d) His daughter, Penelope.

3. Who first discovers Silas Lapham's paint mine?
(a) Silas Lapham's brother, Willard.
(b) Silas Lapham.
(c) Silas Lapham's father.
(d) Persis Lapham.

4. In what city does the novel open?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) Paris.
(d) San Francisco.

5. In Chapter Four, with whom does Silas Lapham sit in the frame of a bay window at the construction site of the family's new Beacon Street house?
(a) His wife.
(b) His daughters.
(c) Mr. Sewell.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Laphams traveling when they meet another Boston family, the rich and fashionable Coreys?

2. What do the Lapham sisters make fun of when discussing Tom Corey at the end of Chapter Four?

3. What have the Corey ladies lost when they first meet the Laphams?

4. Which of the following statements is not a way Tom Corey describes Silas Lapham to his father?

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

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