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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sends a sizable donation to the orphanage in Chapter 6?
(a) Grace Lynch.
(b) Debra Pettigrew.
(c) Mrs. Channing-Peabody.
(d) Olive Worthington.

2. Who is reading to the girl orphans at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Candy.
(b) Angel.
(c) Melony.
(d) Edna.

3. A woman whose husband died in the war comes into the hospital for what in Chapter 9?
(a) Heart surgery.
(b) An abortion.
(c) Hand surgery.
(d) Brain surgery.

4. Who does Homer realize is in the workers' home with him when he masturbates in Chapter 6?
(a) Olive Worthington.
(b) Grace Lynch.
(c) Ray Kendall.
(d) Candy.

5. During the war, Candy and Homer work as nurses' aides at the local hospital and one of the nurses they meet there is whom?
(a) Nurse Edna.
(b) Nurse Angela.
(c) Nurse Caroline.
(d) Nurse Nancy.

6. The day after the movies is the day that what event takes place in Chapter 8?
(a) The outbreak of the Vietnam War.
(b) The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
(c) The outbreak of the Korean War.
(d) The start of World War I.

7. Who writes a letter to Homer to tell him about his heart condition in Chapter 8?
(a) Debra Pettigrew.
(b) Ollive Worthington.
(c) Wally.
(d) Dr. Larch.

8. Who keeps honking the horn outside because he needs Homer's help to get his father out of trouble in town in Chapter 7?
(a) David.
(b) Wally.
(c) Ray.
(d) Wilbur.

9. What is the name of the home on Ocean's View Orchard where the workers live during the harvest season?
(a) Labor camp.
(b) The hay barn.
(c) The cider house.
(d) Squatter's mansion.

10. From whose coat does Melony steal money before leaving the orphanage in Chapter 6?
(a) Nurse Edna's.
(b) Nurse Caroline's.
(c) Olive Worthington's.
(d) Mrs. Grogan's.

11. How old is Angel in Chapter 10?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 23.
(d) 19.

12. Homer doesn't want to take whom to Bath to see the Fred Astaire movie in Chapter 8?
(a) Debra Pettigrew.
(b) Nurse Edna.
(c) Candy.
(d) Dr. Larch.

13. As the summer ends and Wally prepares to go back to college, Olive offers Homer an opportunity to stay where?
(a) The barracks.
(b) Wally's room.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The cider house.

14. Where do Candy and Homer make love for the first time?
(a) At St. Cloud's.
(b) In Wally's bedroom.
(c) In the cider house.
(d) In the Worthington home.

15. In the beginning of Chapter 10, Melony and who are still a couple?
(a) Lorna.
(b) Candy.
(c) Olive.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Chapter 6 begins, Homer has been away from St. Cloud's for how long?

2. The apple pickers are not staying in the cider house because of what reason in Chapter 9?

3. In Chapter 8, when the apple picking season ends, the farmer asks Melony to stay on for what in Chapter 8?

4. Two months after Wally's plane goes down, who returns home in Chapter 3?

5. When Homer Wells receives his survey from the board, it is the same day what who arrives at the orchard in Chapter 7?

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