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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unusual thing did Gerald's spade-footed toad do when shown food?
(a) He would roll over onto his back.
(b) He would sing for his food.
(c) He was bury himself in a hole with the food.
(d) He would leap out of the aquarium.

2. What interesting creatures did the narrator become interested in on his trips to the bay?
(a) King crabs.
(b) Baby lobsters.
(c) Spider crabs.
(d) Clams.

3. What did Gerald do with the soft parts of the turtle after the dissection?
(a) Threw them all out to sea.
(b) Buried them at the top of the hill behind the villa.
(c) Gave them to Lucritia to throw away.
(d) Used them for bait.

4. How did the judge rule on the case between Crippenopoulos and Leslie?
(a) He found Leslie not guilty.
(b) He charged both men fifty dollars and dismissed the case.
(c) He threw the case out.
(d) He found Leslie guilty.

5. What did Theodore and Gerald hear as they ate lunch in the olive grove?
(a) Dogs barking at delivery men.
(b) Goats chewing on any foliage around them.
(c) Cows mooing in the distance.
(d) Lambs braying on the far side of the hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the unusual things Gerald knew about the water-spider?

2. Who was Kokino?

3. How did the water-spider manage to live underwater?

4. What did earlier naturalists call the rotifer?

5. On one of his solo adventures, where did Gerald find a water-spider he brought home to study?

(see the answer key)

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