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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Homer's last name in the novel?
(a) Larch.
(b) Stone.
(c) Worthington.
(d) Wells.

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

4. Who is the founder and doctor of the hospital who runs the orphanage in the novel?
(a) Dr. Wilbur Larch.
(b) Dr. Ray Kendall.
(c) Dr. Homer Wells.
(d) Dr. Wally Richmond.

5. What did Wilbur Larch contract as a result of his father's graduation gift?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Herpes.
(c) Syphillis.
(d) Gonorrhea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of John Irving's novels have been adapted to film?

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

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

4. What do the nurses at the orphanage refer to the doctor as?

5. Wilbur Larch was born in what era?

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