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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVI and XXVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel does Tom Corey notice on a table in the Lapham parlor and begin discussing?
(a) Little Women.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Middlemarch.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

2. Which of the following statements is not a way Tom Corey describes the Lapham girls to his mother?
(a) They're very simple, nice girls.
(b) They're cultured and sophisticated.
(c) Penelope is droll and everything that's unexpected.
(d) Irene is an extraordinary beauty.

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

4. How do Anna and Bromfield Corey feel about Penelope's behavior toward Tom?
(a) They think Penelope is too aloof.
(b) They think Penelope is too demonstrative.
(c) They think Penelope is too clinging.
(d) They think Penelope behaves with great decorum.

5. To where does Silas Lapham want to take Bromfield Corey for a fish dinner?
(a) His Vermont farm.
(b) His home in Nankeen Square.
(c) Tafts.
(d) A French restaurant in Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Persis Lapham find crying in Chapter Seventeen?

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

3. How do Bromfield and Anna Corey respond to the news about Tom's romance?

4. What business idea does Tom Corey propose to Silas Lapham that meets with Lapham's approval?

5. What advice is given to Silas and Persis Lapham at the end of Chapter Eighteen to handle the situation with Tom Corey?

(see the answer key)

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