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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is looking out the window when the car drives by leaving with Homer in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Nurse Edna.
(b) Nurse Caroline.
(c) Angel.
(d) Melony.

2. Dr. Larch writes a letter back after receiving a donation to the orphanage revealing what about Homer in Chapter 6?
(a) He is a homosexual.
(b) He has insomnia.
(c) He has an ether addiction.
(d) He has a heart condition.

3. The nurses keep mentioning in the novel that the doctor is named after what?
(a) A fish.
(b) A bird of prey.
(c) A tree.
(d) A type of rock.

4. Dr. Larch thinks Wally Senior has a neurological problem called what in Chapter 7?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Aneurysm.
(c) Alzheimer's.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

5. When did John Irving win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his script "The Cider House Rules"?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2007.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Homer asks some of the women workers about the cider house rules, they explain that who writes the rules every year?

2. When Chapter 6 begins, Homer has been away from St. Cloud's for how long?

3. When Homer sneaks into the baby room in Chapter 3, he finds one of the expectant mothers standing there who asks him to do what?

4. When the other workers leave for lunch, who stays behind to climb up on to the tin roof of the cider house in Chapter 7?

5. What worker tells Melony she should give up on her boyfriend since he isn't worth it if he didn't tell Melony where he was in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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