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

2. What was the name of John Irving's first novel?
(a) The World According to Garp.
(b) The Water-Method Man.
(c) The 158-Pound Marriage.
(d) Setting Free the Bears.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Wally learn he can take his fiance for an abortion in Chapter 4?

3. What is the name of Wally's girlfriend in Chapter 4?

4. Wilbur Larch's mother worked for whom?

5. Homer performs the autopsy and tells the doctor the cadaver died of what in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the characters of Homer and Wally relate in Chapter 4?

2. 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?

3. Where does Dr. Larch send the prostitute's daughter in Chapter 2? What happens to her there?

4. How does the author describe Wilbur Larch's early life in Chapter 2? What led to Wilbur's sexually transmitted disease?

5. What does the exposition reveal about Dr. Larch's past in Chapter 1?

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

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

8. Why does the prostitute's daughter come to Dr. Larch in Chapter 2?

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

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

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