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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wilbur Larch was born in what era?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1880s.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1940s.

2. What did Wilbur Larch contract as a result of his father's graduation gift?
(a) Herpes.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Syphillis.
(d) Gonorrhea.

3. Where did Wilbur Larch attend medical school?
(a) Bowdoin College.
(b) Cambridge University.
(c) Exeter College.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

4. After graduating from medical school, Dr. Larch delivers babies where?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

5. Where did John Irving grow up?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) Detroit, Michigan.
(c) Exeter, New Hampshire.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The town in which the orphanage is set is described as what?

2. What was the name of John Irving's first novel?

3. What do the nurses at the orphanage refer to the doctor as?

4. In what historical era does the story begin?

5. The third family that adopts Homer does so when he is how old?

(see the answer key)

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