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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Homer performs the autopsy and tells the doctor the cadaver died of what in Chapter 5?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Head trauma.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A severed artery.

4. Where did John Irving grow up?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) Detroit, Michigan.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Exeter, New Hampshire.

5. In Chapter 3, Dr. Larch makes it Homer's responsibility to read to the orphans for how long each night?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 20 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Unknown to Dr. Larch, Melony, and Homer, who lay dead in the woods in Chapter 5?

3. Melony tells Homer in Chapter 3 that if Homer was born at the orphanage, then there is what?

4. What medical reference book does Dr. Larch give to Homer to study?

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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