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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is reading to the boy orphans at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Nurse Edna.
(b) Nurse Angela.
(c) Dr. Larch.
(d) Nurse Caroline.

2. Homer keeps the photograph shown to him by Melony hidden where in Chapter 3?
(a) Behind a mirror.
(b) Behind a bookshelf.
(c) Under his mattress.
(d) In a desk.

3. Melony makes Homer promise that he will stay at the orphanage as long as what in Chapter 3?
(a) Dr. Larch is in charge.
(b) He is alive.
(c) She is alive.
(d) She is there.

4. In Chapter 8, when the apple picking season ends, the farmer asks Melony to stay on for what in Chapter 8?
(a) Winemaking.
(b) Mousing.
(c) Kitchen work.
(d) Gathering hay.

5. In Chapter 2, Dr. Larch returns to the hospital with a girl how old who is pregnant by her father?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Wally and Candy double date with Homer and whom in Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 4, Dr. Larch goes into Homer's history and writes it as if Homer has what to keep Homer from being drafted into the war?

4. What was the name of John Irving's first novel?

5. Dr. Larch thinks Wally Senior has a neurological problem called what in Chapter 7?

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