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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. Who is reading to the boy orphans at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Dr. Larch.
(b) Nurse Angela.
(c) Nurse Edna.
(d) Nurse Caroline.

2. Who works as a plane spotter for two hours a day at her club in Chapter 8?
(a) Homer.
(b) Wally.
(c) Dr. Larch.
(d) Olive Worthington.

3. What did Olive Worthington die of in the novel?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Syphillis.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Aneurysm.

4. Melony frames a newspaper article about what in Chapter 10?
(a) Wally coming home.
(b) An upcoming election.
(c) A place she would like to visit.
(d) The war being over.

5. Homer knows more than his biology teacher about what in Chapter 8?
(a) Living in a big city.
(b) The neurological system.
(c) The war.
(d) The female reproductive system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes Homer a letter to find out why he hasn't filled out his questionnaire yet in Chapter 8?

2. Homer notices the majority of the cider house rules have to do with what in Chapter 7?

3. After his first letter to Dr. Larch, Homer writes home about how often in Chapter 6?

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

5. In Chapter 10, Homer has been running Ocean View, and he is now responsible for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can Homer see has changed at St. Cloud's in Chapter 9?

2. How does Melony's relationship with Lorna parallel her relationship with Homer in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is foreshadowed by the bombing at Pearl Harbor in Chapter 8?

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

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

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