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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. About what book did the Darrell family begin speaking during their meeting?
(a) "Pets and My Family."
(b) "My Family and Other Animals."
(c) Strange Animals I Have Known."
(d) "My Family and Smarter Animals."

2. What did Larry and Gerald learn about snail eggs?
(a) They are pushed under a short bush and left there.
(b) They are buried in the damp earth and left there.
(c) They are buried in sand and the female sits on the eggs.
(d) They are buried in dry sand and left there.

3. What reason was Gerald given for his mother wanting a bamboo house?
(a) She could sleep in it on cool nights.
(b) She could store the yard equipment.
(c) She could store the extra luggage in it.
(d) She could keep plants or store sweet potatoes.

4. What did Margo do daily to combat her acne?
(a) Steam bathe.
(b) Sun bathe.
(c) Sea bathe.
(d) Salt bathe.

5. What was Benitses?
(a) The name of the bay the narrator enjoyed exploring.
(b) The largest coin in the Greek currency.
(c) The city twenty miles from the villa.
(d) The town in which Taki lived.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Larry tell Gerald to do if he wanted to go faster while riding on his donkey?

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 color was the villa into which the Darrell family moved on Corfu?

5. What did Gerald do with the soft parts of the turtle after the dissection?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Gerald and Theo discover on their excursion to the lake? Why was this discovery exciting for Gerald?

3. Who was Roger? How did Gerald meet Roger? What did Gerald and Roger do together on the island?

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. Where did Gerald go to thank Katarina for giving him Sally? What was happening when Gerald arrived at Katarina's? What did Gerald do?

6. What was the "Bootle-bumtrinket?" How did Gerald get it and what did he do with it?

7. What did Gerald do upon catching a seahorse while fishing with Kokino? Where did he find them? How many seahorses did he find in all, and what did he do with them?

8. Where did Taki take Gerald to catch fish? What unusual method did Taki use to catch fish? What strange fish did Taki catch that fascinated Gerald? What did Gerald learn about the fish Taki caught?

9. Who is Taki Thanatos? How did Gerald meet him? What did the two share in common? Where did Taki want to take Gerald?

10. 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?

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