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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 does Melony pack her belongings in when she leaves the orphanage in Chapter 6?
(a) A backpack.
(b) A bedsheet.
(c) Her pillowcase.
(d) A potato sack.

2. In Chapter 6, Dr. Larch writes a letter to tell Homer that Melony left the orphanage and that she took with her the only copy of what book?
(a) Grey's Anatomy.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) David Copperfield.
(d) The Bible.

3. The night before Wally goes back to college, Wally talks about being what?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A racecar driver.
(c) A pilot.
(d) A doctor.

4. Two months after Wally's plane goes down, who returns home in Chapter 3?
(a) Three members of his crew.
(b) Wally's brother.
(c) Dr. Larch.
(d) Wally's uncle.

5. Dr. Larch begins going around now and doing what each night in Chapter 7?
(a) Doing the dishes.
(b) Checking the window locks.
(c) Sweeping the floors.
(d) Kissing the boys goodnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Homer realize is in the workers' home with him when he masturbates in Chapter 6?

2. Who is reading to the boy orphans at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. Mary Agnes tells whom that she saw a van with the Ocean View orchard emblem on it in Chapter 8?

4. It takes how long for Homer to write his first letter to Dr. Larch after leaving the orphanage in Chapter 6?

5. When a woman whose husband died in the war comes to the hospital in Chapter 9, Homer passes the nurse a note to give to the woman that tells her to go where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How have Homer's feelings about St. Cloud's changed in Chapter 6?

3. What leads to the sexual interaction between Grace and Homer in Chapter 7?

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

5. What takes place on Thanksgiving in Chapter 8? Where is the novel set in this chapter?

6. Who knows or suspects Homer and Candy's secret in Chapter 9?

7. What does Homer learn about the history of the cider house rules in Chapter 7?

8. What is symbolized in the coming of spring in Chapter 9?

9. How does Homer view Ray Kendall in Chapter 6? Who does he remind him of?

10. What does Melony do when being chased by two workers in Chapter 7?

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