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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Homer reaches what age do the doctor and nurses fear he will learn about the abortions in Chapter 2?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

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

4. Wilbur Larch's mother worked for whom?
(a) A local politician.
(b) The police captain.
(c) The President.
(d) An Army General.

5. In what historical era does the story begin?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did Wilbur Larch contract as a result of his father's graduation gift?

3. In Chapter 2, the author describes a place off what street that performs the illegal abortions without a medical doctor?

4. In Chapter 2, Dr. Larch returns to the hospital with a girl how old who is pregnant by her father?

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

(see the answer key)

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