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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 did Larry reveal about Sven after Sven had left the house?
(a) He was ill with cancer.
(b) He was fleeing from the army.
(c) He was dying.
(d) He was a homosexual.

2. Who sometimes accompanied Gerald on his boating trips around the island?
(a) Kokino.
(b) Margo.
(c) Oscar and Lucinda.
(d) Widdle, Puke and Roger.

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

4. What was the narrator's name in Greek?
(a) Gervaise.
(b) Geraldo.
(c) Gerrund.
(d) Gerasimos.

5. What fish did Taki and Gerald see lying on the shore during their fishing trip?
(a) A snapper.
(b) A grupper.
(c) A scorpios.
(d) A trout.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Theodore and Gerald hear as they ate lunch in the olive grove?

2. When Gerald's mother said "we'll see," what did Gerald know that really meant?

3. What kinds of things are made with the hawks-bill turtle shell?

4. Which creature was most interesting to the narrator when he first settles into his new residence?

5. In what month did the Darrell family arrive in Corfu?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gerald bring with him for his nighttime fishing expedition? What did he do with his treasures before returning home? What did Taki give Gerald to appease Mother for the late hour of Gerald's return?

2. Who did Mother hire to be Gerald's tutor? How did the two initially get along? What did his tutor do that changed Gerald's perspective on learning?

3. What kinds of spiders did Gerald find on the island? What did he witness one day while observing one of the spiders he had caught?

4. What did mother have Costas construct in the yard? How did she explain the construction to Gerald? What was Gerald's mother really having built and why?

5. Why did George introduce Gerald to Theo Stephanides? What did Gerald hope to learn from Theo?

6. Who did Margo and Gerald discover lived on Mouse Island? How did they first discover this person? How did they eventually appease this inhabitant's ire?

7. What did Gerald do with the crab he and Roger discovered on one of their walks? What did Gerald find fascinating about the crab that led him to further exploration?

8. What dead creature did Gerald load onto his boat and bring home from the bay? What did he do with it upon coming home? How did the family react to his newest creature?

9. Who was Sally? Where did Sally come from? How did the name Sally come to be? Why was Gerald excited to have Sally as a member of the household?

10. What creature did Gerald discover on an afternoon trek to the lake alone? Why was this creature especially important to Gerald? What was unique about this creature?

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