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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Wally's girlfriend's father?
(a) Ray Kendall.
(b) John Kendall.
(c) Clarence Kendall.
(d) Abraham Kendall.

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

3. 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.

4. What is the name of the daughter that a high-society woman wants Dr. Larch to perform an abortion on in Chapter 2?
(a) Melony.
(b) Missy.
(c) Angel.
(d) Candy.

5. Dr. Larch asks Homer to perform an autopsy on what in Chapter 5?
(a) A horse.
(b) A teenage girl.
(c) An old man.
(d) A dead fetus.

6. In Chapter 3, the first book Homer reads to the boys is what?
(a) The Bible.
(b) David Copperfield.
(c) Jane Eyre.
(d) Grey's Anatomy.

7. Wilbur Larch's father is described as having been what?
(a) A preacher.
(b) A banker.
(c) A drunk.
(d) A doctor.

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

9. When Wally sees Candy with the younger boy in her lap, he begs her to do what in Chapter 5?
(a) Adopt the boy.
(b) Marry him.
(c) Not have the abortion.
(d) Have the abortion immediately.

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

11. Homer packs his bag and says goodbye to the two nurses while Dr. Larch starts the autopsy on whom in Chapter 5?
(a) Mr. Rose.
(b) The stationmaster.
(c) Debra Pettigrew.
(d) Mrs. Channing-Peabody.

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

13. 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 rock.
(b) A frog.
(c) A snake.
(d) A stick.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Homer turns to Gray's Anatomy for additional information on the fetus in Chapter 5, the fetus information is where in the book?

2. In Chapter 2, Dr. Larch returns to the hospital with a girl how old who is pregnant by her father?

3. Melony tells Homer in Chapter 3 that if Homer was born at the orphanage, then there is what?

4. In Chapter 5, the wind is picking up in St. Cloud's and awakens the stationmaster, who thinks it is what?

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

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