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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. When did Gerald and his family move to a new villa?
2. What song were Donald and Max singing as they approached the Durrell home?
3. What unusual thing did Gerald's spade-footed toad do when shown food?
4. Who owned the olive press?
5. Where did the family find the missing Donald who was yelling "cooee?"
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Mawake? What was unusual about Mawake?
2. What unusual method did Donald and Max have for leaving the villa on the night of their visit? What happened as they left?
3. What did Gerald observe about the women and the machinery of pressing olives?
4. What was the Talking Head? How did it work?
5. 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?
6. Who did Gerald meet one day during one of his excursions into the crepe myrtles? What unusual creature did this person have?
7. What was the bear's name? How did he respond to Gerald? What was Gerald's reaction to the bear?
8. Who was Demetrios-Mustapha? How did he get this name?
9. Why did Gerald and Mother go to London? What did they find when they got there?
10. What did Gerald find in a field an old woman was cultivating? What did Gerald do with his find?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Based on all of the information provided in both narrative and dialogue, what are some of the characteristics of the author when he was a child? For example, how did he adjust to the move to Corfu, and what does that tell us about him as a child? What were the major influences on the author during his years in Corfu?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the importance of the chapter "Interlude for Spirits" to the memoir. Why did the author choose this title for the chapter? How does this chapter fit in with the rest of the memoir? Which characters are in the spotlight in this chapter and why?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Mother and her different roles in the memoir. She is a mother and the keeper of the Durrell family. What else does the reader know about her from reading the memoir? How does she relate to others?
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