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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 long does Silas Lapham give Milton Rogers to produce the parties who Rogers claims want to buy the mills?
(a) Twenty four hours.
(b) Ten days.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

2. When Silas Lapham starts bringing work home with him, who helps him with his paperwork?
(a) Tom Corey.
(b) Irene.
(c) Persis.
(d) Penelope.

3. Which of the following statements is not something Tom Corey is told about Lapham's paint business in Chapter Twenty One?
(a) No wages have ever been cut before at Lapham's.
(b) It is prospering.
(c) Other paint companies are decreasing production.
(d) The fire's never been out in the works.

4. What does Nanny Corey think the novel discussed at her family's dinner party should have been called?
(a) Slop, Silly Slop.
(b) Sin, Blatant Sin.
(c) Heaven, Sweet Heaven.
(d) Boredom, Eternal Boredom.

5. What does Penelope write to Tom Corey?
(a) To come see her at once.
(b) That she's going to become a nun.
(c) That she is engaged to another man.
(d) To not come see her until she says it's okay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silas Lapham decide to shut down in Chapter Twenty Three?

2. How does Persis Lapham shock Penelope out of her depression over Tom Corey?

3. What subject does Persis urgently need to discuss with Silas in Chapter Eighteen?

4. When Persis Lapham tells Penelope that Tom Corey has offered to invest in her father's company, how does Penelope respond?

5. From whom do the Laphams receive a letter at the beginning of Chapter Twenty Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the Laphams react to the dinner invitation from the aristocratic Coreys?

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

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

5. Which member of the Lapham family does not attend the Corey dinner party and what different reactions do Anna Corey and Persis Lapham have to the absence?

6. Why do the Coreys decide to invite the Laphams to dinner if they don't really like them?

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

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

9. What destroys Silas Lapham's new house and how does that situation add to Lapham's financial woes?

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

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