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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. Where did the baby hedgehogs live?
(a) In a cardboard box under Gerald's bed.
(b) In a cardboard box on the veranda.
(c) In a cardboard box on Gerald's balnket.
(d) In a cardboard box in the attic.

2. Before Donald and Max leave the Durrells, what were they given to drink?
(a) Hot coffee.
(b) Warm brandy.
(c) Hot tea.
(d) A little wine.

3. What did Gerald hear Prue tell Mother about Mrs. Haddock?
(a) That she was covered in endoplasm and able to speak to the dead.
(b) That she was covered in ectoplasm and able to make trumpets fly.
(c) That she was covered in fur coats and able to speak to the dead.
(d) That she was covered in dark sheets and able to hear voices.

4. Why did Margo and Larry implore Donald and Max to be quiet?
(a) The neighbors might awaken and call the police.
(b) Mother was sick and sleeping.
(c) Gerald was asleep.
(d) Mother might awaken and call the police.

5. Where did the family find the missing Donald who was yelling "cooee?"
(a) Hanging on a pipe in the well.
(b) Underneath the front porch of the house.
(c) Locked in the outhouse.
(d) Hiding in a kitchen closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mother and Gerald stay when they arrived to see Margo?

2. How did Gerald's family react when he walked into the drawing room the afternoon he had met the gypsy?

3. What was Gerald contemplating on his walk home from meeting the gypsy and Pavlo?

4. What name does the Countess tell Gerald to call her during their visit?

5. Who owned the olive press?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sound woke Larry in the middle of the night that caused him to wake the rest of the family? What did Gerald tell them all that explained things? What had caused the noise?

2. What misadventure did Gerald have on his way to meet Countess Mavrodaki? How did he feel when he arrived at her house? What was her response to his misadventure on the way over?

3. How did Mother respond to meeting Mawake and Mrs. Haddock? How was this reaction unusual for Mother? What was the conclusion of the meeting?

4. What unusual method did Donald and Max have for leaving the villa on the night of their visit? What happened as they left?

5. What happened when Gerald arrived home after his visit with Pavlo and the gypsy?

6. What was the Talking Head? How did it work?

7. Where did Margo go for treatment for her acne and weight gain? With whom did she stay? Was the treatment successful?

8. What kinds of food and drink did Gerald's luncheon with the Countess consist of? How did Gerald feel as he left the Countess' villa to go home?

9. What did Gerald do with his owl when he got home? What name did he give his owl? Where did he place the owl once he had tended to him?

10. Who was Demetrios-Mustapha? How did he get this name?

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