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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX and X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom Corey tell his mother the Laphams like to do more than read?
(a) Eat.
(b) Talk.
(c) Sail.
(d) Play tennis.

2. Why does Persis Lapham call her husband the Colonel?
(a) Silas Lapham is rigid and disciplined like an army officer.
(b) Silas Lapham was a colonel in the Revolutionary War.
(c) Silas Lapham reminds her of her father, an army colonel.
(d) Silas Lapham was a colonel in the Civil War.

3. What business does Persis Lapham tell her husband she thinks Tom Corey will never go into?
(a) The mineral paint business.
(b) Real estate.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Journalism.

4. Who meets the boat with a carriage and driver to take Silas Lapham and Tom Corey home?
(a) Persis Lapham.
(b) Penelope Lapham.
(c) Mr. Sewell.
(d) Irene Lapham.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Nine, what is Silas Lapham fond of letting the public know?

2. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?

3. What do the Lapham sisters think their father does too much when Tom Corey visits the site of their new house in Chapter Four and receives a tour of the Beacon Street house from Silas?

4. Where was Silas Lapham born?

5. How long has the Lapham family lived in their Boston home?

(see the answer key)

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