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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Larch tries to get Candy alone to explain the procedure to her, and Homer escorts Wally outside in time to do what in Chapter 5?
(a) Start yelling.
(b) Start crying.
(c) Smoke a cigarette.
(d) Throw up.

2. As a graduation gift from high school, Wilbur's father bought him what?
(a) A new car.
(b) A night with a prostitute.
(c) A plane ticket.
(d) A watch.

3. Homer's first foster family returns him to the orphanage because of what reason?
(a) He never cries.
(b) He is violent.
(c) He is silent.
(d) He swears.

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

5. What is the name of Wally's girlfriend in Chapter 4?
(a) Valerie.
(b) Samantha.
(c) Mary.
(d) Candy.

6. When Homer turns to Gray's Anatomy for additional information on the fetus in Chapter 5, the fetus information is where in the book?
(a) The glossary.
(b) The intro.
(c) The end.
(d) The middle.

7. Melony picks up what while she and Homer are hanging out in one of the abandoned buildings by the river in Chapter 3?
(a) A snake.
(b) A frog.
(c) A rock.
(d) A stick.

8. Dr. Larch applies for an obstetrics position in his home town of what in Chapter 2?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Portland, Maine.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Miami, Florida.

9. In Chapter 4, Homer and Melony are close to how old?
(a) 35.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

10. Unknown to Dr. Larch, Melony, and Homer, who lay dead in the woods in Chapter 5?
(a) The stationmaster.
(b) Nurse Angela.
(c) Olive Worthington.
(d) Nurse Edna.

11. Who is looking out the window when the car drives by leaving with Homer in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Melony.
(b) Nurse Caroline.
(c) Angel.
(d) Nurse Edna.

12. Homer sends a note to Melony to tell her what when he goes to read for the girls in Chapter 3?
(a) Dr. Larch is not gay.
(b) He wants to go for a walk.
(c) He can't find her record.
(d) He enjoys the picture.

13. 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?
(a) Bone spurs.
(b) A mental disability.
(c) A heart problem.
(d) Bad vision.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While Dr. Larch permits Homer to deliver babies, he doesn't allow Homer to do what in Chapter 4?

2. In what historical era does the story begin?

3. When Homer sneaks into the baby room in Chapter 3, he finds one of the expectant mothers standing there who asks him to do what?

4. The town in which the orphanage is set is described as what?

5. What did Wilbur Larch contract as a result of his father's graduation gift?

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