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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. In Chapter 2, Dr. Larch returns to the hospital with a girl how old who is pregnant by her father?
(a) 16.
(b) 13.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

2. What is the name of Wally's girlfriend in Chapter 4?
(a) Samantha.
(b) Mary.
(c) Candy.
(d) Valerie.

3. Homer's first foster family returns him to the orphanage because of what reason?
(a) He is violent.
(b) He is silent.
(c) He swears.
(d) He never cries.

4. In Chapter 4, a pregnant woman comes to St. Cloud's and collapses in the dispensary from what?
(a) Eclampsia.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Scurvy.
(d) Amnesia.

5. What medical reference book does Dr. Larch give to Homer to study?
(a) Gray's Anatomy.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) How to Perform Abortions.
(d) David Copperfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what historical era does the story begin?

2. Which nurse is in love with the doctor at the orphanage?

3. When one of the orphans dies, Dr. Larch writes a history about the child being what?

4. What is the birth name of Wally's mother in the novel?

5. The nurses keep mentioning in the novel that the doctor is named after what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways do the characters of Olive Worthington and Dr. Larch relate in Chapter 4?

2. Where does Wally invite Homer to go with him in Chapter 5?

3. Discuss the symbolism and foreshadowing in Chapter 4. What is foreshadowed by Candy's pregnancy?

4. What is symbolic about Dr. Larch's choices for the books read to the orphans in Chapter 3?

5. In what ways does Dr. Larch record the history of St. Cloud's as described in Chapter 1?

6. What imagery does the author use in describing Homer's walks from the girls' division at the orphanage in Chapter 3? What is symbolic about this imagery?

7. What is foreshadowed about the life and career of Dr. Larch in Chapter 2?

8. How is Melony described by the author in Chapter 3? What age is Melony?

9. In what ways is St. Cloud's symbolic? How does the author establish this in Chapter 1?

10. What causes Homer's first two adoptive families to return him to the orphanage in Chapter 1?

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