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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Melony tells Homer in Chapter 3 that if Homer was born at the orphanage, then there is what?
(a) A movie of his birth.
(b) Birth certificate on file.
(c) Photographs of his parents.
(d) A record of who his real mother is.

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

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

4. Where did Wilbur Larch attend medical school?
(a) Bowdoin College.
(b) Harvard Medical School.
(c) Exeter College.
(d) Cambridge University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Irving grow up?

2. Melony suggests to Homer that Dr. Larch is what in Chapter 3?

3. What do Melony and Homer see flying in the air by the river in Chapter 3?

4. What was the name of John Irving's first novel?

5. What is the name of the daughter that a high-society woman wants Dr. Larch to perform an abortion on in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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