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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Silas Lapham tell Persis he doesn't like about Tom Corey?
(a) Tom lives off his father instead of supporting himself.
(b) Tom is too young to marry one of their daughters.
(c) Tom is snobbish and condescending.
(d) Tom doesn't show respect for the mineral paint business.

2. In Chapter Nine, while Tom Corey discusses Middlemarch with her, with what does Irene seem engrossed?
(a) Embroidering a cushion.
(b) Her new silk gown.
(c) Dusting a windowsill with her gloved fingers.
(d) Trapping a pine shaving with the point of her parasol.

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

4. What do Irene Lapham and Tom Corey talk about all evening when Tom visits the Lapham home in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Middlemarch.
(d) Mineral paints.

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 daughters.
(b) Mr. Sewell.
(c) His wife.
(d) Bromfield Corey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what series of articles is the newspaper going to feature an article on Silas Lapham?

3. What does Silas Lapham send Bartley Hubbard's wife as a present at the end of Chapter One?

4. In Chapter Two, who sends Persis Lapham a lithographed circular soliciting for donations to a charity?

5. What does Persis Lapham try unsuccessfully to get her husband to understand at the end of Chapter Nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What arguments does Anna Corey give her husband for opposing their son's marriage to Silas Lapham's daughter?

2. What is Lapham's childhood and family background, and how does this background shape his values?

3. What business proposals does Tom Corey suggest to Silas Lapham?

4. What aspect of Tom Corey's life does Silas Lapham disapprove of, and what action does Lapham think it would take to improve Corey?

5. What is Silas Lapham's relationship with Milton Rogers and what disagreement do Silas and Persis have over Lapham's dealings with Rogers?

6. How has Persis Lapham supported her husband and his business over the years and how does Lapham honor her for her support?

7. Why does Bartley Hubbard interview Silas Lapham, and what differing views of success do Hubbard and Lapham have?

8. When Tom Corey comes to their new home's construction site, why do the Laphams leave him alone with Irene?

9. What happens in Chapter Ten when Milton Rogers asks Silas Lapham for a loan, and how does Persis Lapham feel about the situation?

10. Describe how Silas Lapham gets into the paint business.

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