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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what age is Homer learning to be a doctor, seen a live birth, learned how to perform abortions, and having routine sex with Melony in Chapter 3?
(a) 18.
(b) 13.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

2. When two men from the orchard run after her, Melony beats one of them up with her fists and feet and the other with what in Chapter 7?
(a) A piece of wood.
(b) A rake.
(c) A belt.
(d) An ax.

3. In Chapter 3, the first book Homer reads to the boys is what?
(a) Grey's Anatomy.
(b) David Copperfield.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Jane Eyre.

4. Melony suggests to Homer that Dr. Larch is addicted to what in Chapter 3?
(a) Ether.
(b) Opium.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Alcohol.

5. What woman from a high-society family in Boston invites Dr. Larch to a croquet party in Chapter 2?
(a) Mrs. Channing-Peabody.
(b) Grace Lynch.
(c) Olive Worthington.
(d) Mrs. Grogan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the founder and doctor of the hospital who runs the orphanage in the novel?

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

3. Melony picks up what while she and Homer are hanging out in one of the abandoned buildings by the river in Chapter 3?

4. After the prostitute dies, her daughter comes to see Dr. Larch and hands him a brown bottle that contains a solution promising to do what in Chapter 2?

5. While Dr. Larch permits Homer to deliver babies, he doesn't allow Homer to do what in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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