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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does D and C stand for?
(a) Distribution and commerce.
(b) Dilation and curettage.
(c) Duration and courage.
(d) Duty and courage.

2. What do the nurses at the orphanage refer to the doctor as?
(a) A dictator.
(b) A lecher.
(c) A martyr.
(d) A saint.

3. The third family that adopts Homer does so when he is how old?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

4. The nurses keep mentioning in the novel that the doctor is named after what?
(a) A bird of prey.
(b) A fish.
(c) A type of rock.
(d) A tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Irving grow up?

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

3. What is the name of the daughter that a high-society woman wants Dr. Larch to perform an abortion on in Chapter 2?

4. Dr. Larch applies for an obstetrics position in his home town of what in Chapter 2?

5. What orphan from St. Cloud's did Melony once break her collarbone?

(see the answer key)

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