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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the apple orchard that Wally Worthington Senior owns?
(a) Rocky Coast Orchard.
(b) Ocean's View Orchard.
(c) Seaside Haven Orchard.
(d) Atlantic Bounty Orchard.

2. Wilbur Larch's father is described as having been what?
(a) A drunk.
(b) A preacher.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A banker.

3. Dr. Larch is surprised to see that the woman in the pornographic photo is whom in Chapter 3?
(a) The prostitute's daughter.
(b) Nurse Edna.
(c) Nurse Angela.
(d) Nurse Caroline.

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

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

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

7. What does Homer name the baby he delivers in Chapter 4?
(a) David.
(b) Dennis.
(c) Daryl.
(d) Darren.

8. Where does Wally learn he can take his fiance for an abortion in Chapter 4?
(a) Ocean's View Orchard.
(b) Anderson Hospital.
(c) St. Cloud's.
(d) St. Jude's.

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

10. 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?
(a) Grace Lynch.
(b) Debra Pettigrew.
(c) Mary Agnes.
(d) Olive Worthington.

11. Two boys from the orphanage playing outside fall over the dead and frozen body of whom in Chapter 5?
(a) Nurse Caroline.
(b) David Copperfield.
(c) The stationmaster.
(d) Dr. Wilbur Larch.

12. How many of John Irving's novels have been adapted to film?
(a) 13.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

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

14. The third family that adopts Homer does so when he is how old?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

15. When was "The World According to Garp" published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1958.

Short Answer Questions

1. Melony makes Homer promise that he will stay at the orphanage as long as what in Chapter 3?

2. What orphan from the orphanage had respiratory problems causing him/her to sleep in a special tent to help with breathing?

3. When Homer says goodbye to Dr. Larch, they tell each other what for the first time in Chapter 5?

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

5. Homer packs his bag and says goodbye to the two nurses while Dr. Larch starts the autopsy on whom in Chapter 5?

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