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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 there.
(d) She is alive.

2. Where did Wilbur Larch attend medical school?
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Harvard Medical School.
(c) Bowdoin College.
(d) Exeter College.

3. 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.

4. The older of the two orphans think the couple is there to do what when Candy and Wally arrive in Chapter 5?
(a) Adopt a child.
(b) Deliver a baby.
(c) Make a donation.
(d) Have an abortion.

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

6. Wilbur Larch's mother worked for whom?
(a) A local politician.
(b) An Army General.
(c) The President.
(d) The police captain.

7. 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.

8. The autopsy reveals that the prostitute to whom Dr. Larch lost his virginity to died of what in Chapter 2?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Herpes.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Scurvy.

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

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

11. When was John Irving born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1930.

12. Two boys from the orphanage playing outside fall over the dead and frozen body of whom in Chapter 5?
(a) Nurse Caroline.
(b) David Copperfield.
(c) The stationmaster.
(d) Dr. Wilbur Larch.

13. When one of the orphans dies, Dr. Larch writes a history about the child being what?
(a) A runaway.
(b) A carrier of a rare illness.
(c) Adopted.
(d) Arrested.

14. What was the name of John Irving's first novel?
(a) The 158-Pound Marriage.
(b) Setting Free the Bears.
(c) The Water-Method Man.
(d) The World According to Garp.

15. Wally's girlfriend in Chapter 4 is the daughter of the local what?
(a) Capenter and drunk.
(b) Sheriff and city councilman.
(c) Banker and investor.
(d) Lobsterman and mechanic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Wally sees Candy with the younger boy in her lap, he begs her to do what in Chapter 5?

3. The third family that adopts Homer does so when he is how old?

4. What is Homer's last name in the novel?

5. In Chapter 3, the first book Homer reads to the boys is what?

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