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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what state is "The Cider House Rules" set?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Maine.
(d) Montana.

3. After the abortion, who comes into the recovery room to be with Candy in Chapter 5?
(a) Wally.
(b) Olive.
(c) Homer.
(d) Melony.

4. In Chapter 5, Melony watches as a few women walk from the first train of the morning up to St. Cloud's and observes that the women that come on the morning train and leave on the afternoon train are different how?
(a) They are more cheerful.
(b) They walk differently.
(c) They are quieter.
(d) Their eyes look different.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Wilbur Larch's father is described as having been what?

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

4. Homer performs the autopsy and tells the doctor the cadaver died of what in Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Dr. Larch send the prostitute's daughter in Chapter 2? What happens to her there?

2. How is Homer's first meeting with Candy and Wally described in Chapter 5?

3. Why does the prostitute's daughter come to Dr. Larch in Chapter 2?

4. What causes Homer's first two adoptive families to return him to the orphanage in Chapter 1?

5. What does the exposition reveal about Dr. Larch's past in Chapter 1?

6. How is Homer Wells described in Chapter 1? How is Homer viewed by Dr. Larch and the nurses?

7. Where does Dr. Larch decide to go when leaving Boston in Chapter 2? Who invites him to a party and why, in this chapter?

8. What is foreshadowed about the life and career of Dr. Larch in Chapter 2?

9. How do the characters of Homer and Wally relate in Chapter 4?

10. What is ironic about Wilbur's parents in Chapter 2? How is Wilbur's career shaped by his encounter with the prostitute?

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