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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dr. Larch catches Homer searching his office, Dr. Larch tells Homer what in Chapter 3?
(a) He doesn't keep records of the biological mothers.
(b) He is no longer his assistant.
(c) He is not allowed to view the mother's files.
(d) Get out.

2. Which nurse is in love with the doctor at the orphanage?
(a) Nurse Melissa.
(b) Nurse Beth.
(c) Nurse Angela.
(d) Nurse Edna.

3. What is the name of the daughter that a high-society woman wants Dr. Larch to perform an abortion on in Chapter 2?
(a) Missy.
(b) Candy.
(c) Melony.
(d) Angel.

4. 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 Edna.
(b) Nurse Melissa.
(c) Nurse Angela.
(d) Nurse Beth.

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

6. After the prostitute dies, her daughter comes to see Dr. Larch and hands him a brown bottle that contains a solution promising to do what in Chapter 2?
(a) Cause miscarriages.
(b) Relieve headaches.
(c) Cure cancer.
(d) Induce sleep.

7. While Dr. Larch permits Homer to deliver babies, he doesn't allow Homer to do what in Chapter 4?
(a) Brain surgery.
(b) Perform abortions.
(c) Draw blood.
(d) Heart surgery.

8. Wally's girlfriend in Chapter 4 is the daughter of the local what?
(a) Sheriff and city councilman.
(b) Banker and investor.
(c) Capenter and drunk.
(d) Lobsterman and mechanic.

9. By what age is Homer learning to be a doctor, seen a live birth, learned how to perform abortions, and having routine sex with Melony in Chapter 3?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 13.

10. The autopsy reveals that the prostitute to whom Dr. Larch lost his virginity to died of what in Chapter 2?
(a) Scurvy.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Herpes.

11. Homer packs his bag and says goodbye to the two nurses while Dr. Larch starts the autopsy on whom in Chapter 5?
(a) The stationmaster.
(b) Debra Pettigrew.
(c) Mr. Rose.
(d) Mrs. Channing-Peabody.

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

13. In Chapter 5, the wind is picking up in St. Cloud's and awakens the stationmaster, who thinks it is what?
(a) New Year's Day.
(b) Easter.
(c) Christmas Day..
(d) Judgment Day.

14. How does Homer feel about Candy when he first meets her in Chapter 5?
(a) He thinks she is misinformed.
(b) He thinks she is arrogant.
(c) He falls in love with her.
(d) He finds her unattractive.

15. Unknown to Dr. Larch, Melony, and Homer, who lay dead in the woods in Chapter 5?
(a) Olive Worthington.
(b) The stationmaster.
(c) Nurse Edna.
(d) Nurse Angela.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John Irving win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his script "The Cider House Rules"?

2. Melony tells Homer in Chapter 3 that if Homer was born at the orphanage, then there is what?

3. Two boys from the orphanage playing outside fall over the dead and frozen body of whom in Chapter 5?

4. When Wally asks some of the men working at his parents' orchard about abortion, one of the men tells him to talk to whom in Chapter 4?

5. In what historical era does the story begin?

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