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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. What name do Candy and Homer give to the child they have in the novel?
(a) Angel Wells.
(b) Barney Wells.
(c) Douglas Wells.
(d) Robert Wells.

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

3. In the beginning of Chapter 9, one of the orchard workers has dreams about Wally, which she takes as a sign that Wally is what?
(a) Dead.
(b) Mortally wounded.
(c) Marrying someone else.
(d) Trying to send a message.

4. 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 Caroline.
(b) Nurse Angela.
(c) Nurse Edna.
(d) Nurse Nancy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What orphan from St. Cloud's did Melony once break her collarbone?

2. What did Olive Worthington die of in the novel?

3. Homer drops Wally off at Candy's house so they can have a private night together, and Homer picks whom up for a night at the drive-in movie in Chapter 7?

4. When Homer asks some of the women workers about the cider house rules, they explain that who writes the rules every year?

5. Who does Homer send to St. Cloud's to get a job "doing the Lord's work" in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Rose tell Homer about the differences in rules in Chapter 10?

2. What does Mrs. Grogan see changing in Melony in Chapter 6? Why?

3. How does Candy establish rules for her relationship with Homer in Chapter 10?

4. What do Homer and Candy discuss on Ray Kendall's dock in Chapter 8?

5. What is symbolic about the trees at the orchard in Chapter 8?

6. How does Dr. Larch relate to Melony in Chapter 6?

7. What is Dr. Larch setting up for the character of Fuzzy Stone in Chapter 7?

8. What is foreshadowed by Wally's return in Chapter 10?

9. What is foreshadowed in Nurse Caroline's warning in Chapter 9?

10. What leads Candy to discover Homer's love for her in Chapter 8?

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