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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. How do Bromfield and Anna Corey respond to the news about Tom's romance?
(a) They offer to pay for the wedding.
(b) They try to interest Tom in a more aristocratic bride.
(c) They threaten to disinherit Tom.
(d) They don't like it but resign themselves to it.

2. What might Silas Lapham have to sell because of the financial trouble he is into with Rogers?
(a) His cottage.
(b) His Back Bay home.
(c) His wife's jewelry.
(d) His paint business.

3. At the beginning of Chapter Twenty Four, who tells Tom Corey how bad Silas Lapham's business troubles are?
(a) Bromfield Corey.
(b) Silas Lapham.
(c) Penelope.
(d) James Bellingham, Tom's maternal uncle.

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

5. In Chapter Twelve, what do the Corey sisters bring back from their summer vacation?
(a) A new housemaid.
(b) Studies of kelp & toadstools, rocks & rotten logs.
(c) New wardrobes.
(d) Cases of the measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Anna Corey visits the Laphams in Chapter Twelve, how does Mrs. Lapham feel about the visit?

2. What physical ailment does Tom Corey have in Chapter Twenty One?

3. Which of the Laphams is happiest about the Coreys' dinner invitation?

4. From whom has Silas Lapham purchased mills in Chapter Twenty?

5. On what street do the Coreys live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tom Corey's reaction when he learns that the Laphams have believed he prefers Irene to Penelope?

2. Describe Irene's reaction to the news that Tom Corey prefers her plainer sister, Penelope, to her.

3. Describe the business deal Silas Lapham and Milton Rogers make regarding the mills.

4. Who is Mr. Sewell and what does he suggest that Silas and Persis Lapham do about the situation between their daughters and Tom Corey?

5. What new business proposition does Milton Rogers bring Silas Lapham in Chapter Twenty Five?

6. What opinion does Penelope Lapham give Tom Corey about the novel Tears, Idle Tears?

7. What bad news does Walker the bookkeeper deliver to Silas Lapham about Lapham's paint company in Chapter Twenty One?

8. What is the reaction of Bromfield and Anna Corey to the news that their son loves Penelope rather than Irene Lapham?

9. What revelation does Tom Corey make to Penelope Lapham in Chapter Sixteen and what is Penelope's surprising reaction to the news?

10. What opinion does Anna Corey form of Penelope Lapham during her visit with Persis and Penelope?

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