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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color was the villa into which the Darrell family moved on Corfu?
(a) Alligator green with orange shutters.
(b) Crushed-strawberry pink with green shutters.
(c) Avacado green with yellow shutters.
(d) Navel-orange with green shutters.

2. What was one of the unusual things Gerald knew about the water-spider?
(a) The female is twice as large as the male.
(b) The male is twice as large as the female.
(c) The female eats the male.
(d) The male carries the eggs.

3. Who was George?
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) The narrator's dog.
(c) The narrator's gardener.
(d) The narrator's tutor.

4. How did Larry react to Theodore's information about the snails Gerald had seen?
(a) He was disgusted.
(b) He was jealous.
(c) He was bored.
(d) He was angry.

5. What or who is Fabre?
(a) The biologist who studied dung beetles.
(b) The radiologist who examined skeletal remains.
(c) The naturalist who wrote about insects.
(d) The zoologist who was bron in Corfu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mouse Island?

2. Which family member bought a book about nature for Gerald as a gift?

3. How did the judge rule on the case between Crippenopoulos and Leslie?

4. What did earlier naturalists call the rotifer?

5. What time did Taki usually begin fishing?

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