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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Wally learn he can take his fiance for an abortion in Chapter 4?
(a) St. Cloud's.
(b) Anderson Hospital.
(c) St. Jude's.
(d) Ocean's View Orchard.

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

3. While Dr. Larch permits Homer to deliver babies, he doesn't allow Homer to do what in Chapter 4?
(a) Brain surgery.
(b) Draw blood.
(c) Perform abortions.
(d) Heart surgery.

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

5. What is the name of the apple orchard that Wally Worthington Senior owns?
(a) Seaside Haven Orchard.
(b) Rocky Coast Orchard.
(c) Ocean's View Orchard.
(d) Atlantic Bounty Orchard.

6. 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.

7. What orphan from the orphanage had respiratory problems causing him/her to sleep in a special tent to help with breathing?
(a) Wally Worthington.
(b) Melony.
(c) Fuzzy Stone.
(d) Homer.

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

9. In Chapter 2, the author describes a place off what street that performs the illegal abortions without a medical doctor?
(a) Washington Boulevard.
(b) Lincoln Street.
(c) Harrison Street.
(d) Adams Way.

10. What is Homer's last name in the novel?
(a) Wells.
(b) Larch.
(c) Stone.
(d) Worthington.

11. What college did Wilbur Larch attend for his undergraduate degree?
(a) Bowdoin College.
(b) Cambridge University.
(c) Exeter College.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

12. When was "The World According to Garp" published?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1965.

13. What is the name of the city where the orphanage is in "The Cider House Rules"?
(a) Bangor.
(b) Grey Rock.
(c) St. Cloud's.
(d) Portland.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Homer name the baby he delivers in Chapter 4?

2. Wilbur Larch's mother worked for whom?

3. Melony suggests to Homer that Dr. Larch is what in Chapter 3?

4. 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?

5. What is the book that Dr. Larch chooses for Homer to read to the girls at the orphanage?

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