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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The town in which the orphanage is set is described as what?
(a) A slow-paced retirement community.
(b) A bustling manufacturing city.
(c) An abandoned logging town.
(d) A prosperous fishing village.

2. What was the name of John Irving's first novel?
(a) The World According to Garp.
(b) The 158-Pound Marriage.
(c) The Water-Method Man.
(d) Setting Free the Bears.

3. Who is one of the nurses who works in the boys' division of the hospital orphanage and who tries to never repeat names when naming the babies?
(a) Nurse Beth.
(b) Nurse Melissa.
(c) Nurse Angela.
(d) Nurse Edna.

4. What drug did Wilbur Larch begin taking regularly while in medical school?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Ether.
(c) LSD.
(d) Opium.

5. What college did Wilbur Larch attend for his undergraduate degree?
(a) Harvard Medical School.
(b) Bowdoin College.
(c) Exeter College.
(d) Cambridge University.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Homer's first foster family returns him to the orphanage because of what reason?

3. When Homer reaches what age do the doctor and nurses fear he will learn about the abortions in Chapter 2?

4. Wilbur Larch's father is described as having been what?

5. In what historical era does the story begin?

(see the answer key)

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