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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of business does Silas Lapham buy before his paint business takes off?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A saloon.
(d) A bank.

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?
(a) Talks.
(b) Drinks.
(c) Brags.
(d) Eats.

4. Whose death brings sorrow to the early years of the Lapham marriage?
(a) Silas Lapham's mother.
(b) The Laphams' son.
(c) Persis Lapham's mother.
(d) Silas Lapham's father.

5. What do the Lapham sisters make fun of when discussing Tom Corey at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Tom's hair and nose.
(b) Tom's short stature.
(c) Tom's freckles.
(d) Tom's big feet.

6. 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?
(a) She has never attended the opera.
(b) She has never patronized a charity.
(c) She has never bought a real diamond necklace.
(d) She has never given a dinner.

7. In Chapter Two, who sends Persis Lapham a lithographed circular soliciting for donations to a charity?
(a) Her daughter's teacher.
(b) The governor's wife.
(c) Mr. Sewell.
(d) Anna Corey.

8. What does Irene ask Tom Corey to suggest for the new room in the Laphams' Beacon Street home?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Books.
(c) Art work.
(d) A piano.

9. What kind of gambling does Silas Lapham tell his wife he has been doing in Chapter Ten?
(a) Playing the stock market.
(b) Playing roulette.
(c) Betting on horses.
(d) Playing poker.

10. What physical ailment has Irene developed in Chapter Six?
(a) Indigestion.
(b) A broken arm.
(c) A headache.
(d) A cold.

11. In Chapter Nine, who thinks the Lapham family is below the Corey family?
(a) Bromfield Corey.
(b) Tom Corey.
(c) Irene Lapham.
(d) Silas Lapham.

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

13. 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) Lapham's bookkeeper.
(b) Milton Rogers.
(c) Tom Corey.
(d) Zerilla Dewey.

14. What does Anna Corey think of her son going into Lapham's mineral paint business?
(a) She supports the idea.
(b) She finds the idea distasteful.
(c) She prefers he start his own company.
(d) She thinks his father should do the same.

15. What does Anna Corey think of the Lapham family borrowing books from the public library?
(a) That it shows their ignorance of literature.
(b) That it makes them common.
(c) That it shows theit interest in literature.
(d) That it shows how frugal they are.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the Lapham family has been reading the novel Tom Corey sees on the Lapham parlor table?

2. What does Anna Corey wish her son had done instead of join Silas Lapham's paint business?

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

4. What is Anna Corey's reaction when her husband Bromfield tells her their son has decided to join Silas Lapham's paint business?

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?

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