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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Melony makes up a story about having what which keeps the men from bothering her in Chapter 7?
(a) Mental problems.
(b) A sexually transmitted disease.
(c) A knife in her pocket.
(d) A pistol.

2. Which nurse is in love with the doctor at the orphanage?
(a) Nurse Angela.
(b) Nurse Beth.
(c) Nurse Edna.
(d) Nurse Melissa.

3. What does Melony pack her belongings in when she leaves the orphanage in Chapter 6?
(a) Her pillowcase.
(b) A backpack.
(c) A potato sack.
(d) A bedsheet.

4. The town in which the orphanage is set is described as what?
(a) A bustling manufacturing city.
(b) An abandoned logging town.
(c) A slow-paced retirement community.
(d) A prosperous fishing village.

5. What did Wally's mother change her first and last name to after marrying?
(a) Candice Worthington.
(b) Olive Worthington.
(c) Martha Worthington.
(d) Janice Worthington.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Homer feel about Candy when he first meets her in Chapter 5?

2. When Dr. Larch catches Homer searching his office, Dr. Larch tells Homer what in Chapter 3?

3. Wally keeps talking about what that the orphanage should plant on the hill in Chapter 5?

4. Two boys from the orphanage playing outside fall over the dead and frozen body of whom in Chapter 5?

5. During the war, Candy and Homer work as nurses' aides at the local hospital and one of the nurses they meet there is whom?

(see the answer key)

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