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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where and by who was the white owl found?
2. What was Pavlo's special talent?
3. What did Mother say to Gerald as they turned off the lights to fall asleep?
4. How did the baby hedgehogs die?
5. What did Margo ask her mother to do with the cabbage she had brought with her to the hotel?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who did Gerald meet one day during one of his excursions into the crepe myrtles? What unusual creature did this person have?
2. Why did Gerald and Mother go to London? What did they find when they got there?
3. What did Pru tell Mother about Margo's behavior in London? What were her concerns? How did Margo react to the concerns of her great aunts and mother?
4. When Margo, Mother, Fan and Prue took the dogs with them shopping, what happened?
5. Who was Tickletummy? Where did Tickletummy come from? What special quality did Tickletummy have that warranted his name?
6. Who was Papa Demetrios? How did Gerald and Papa Demetrios know each other? What story did he tell Gerald about a fellow villager, Andreas Papoyakis?
7. What was the Talking Head? How did it work?
8. What did Gerald find in a field an old woman was cultivating? What did Gerald do with his find?
9. Who arrived at the house in the middle of the night? Where did they come from and why did they come to the villa? How did the family react to their arrival?
10. Who did Gerald and his mother find sitting on their front porch the afternoon they returned from their excursion into the olive groves? Where did this person come from and why? How did Mother get along with this new guest?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Kralefsky? He is given an opportunity to tell a story in Chapter Nine. What is the story he tells, and why does Gerald doubt the truth of the story?
Essay Topic 2
What is the "olive merry go round?" How does it work, and what does it do? How does Gerald discover it and its owner?
Essay Topic 3
This memoir covers a period of time in Durrell's life. The reader is given clues as to how old the characters are, the years in which they are on Corfu, and what part of the twentieth century the memoir takes place. Write in your own words a short biography of the Durrell family and include as much as you know about the time(s) in the memoir.
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