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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 was Margo when Mother and Gerald arrived to see her?

2. What unusual feature of Mrs. Haddock's speech did Mother immediately notice?

3. Who attended the seance with Mrs. Haddock?

4. What did Theodore and Gerald see out in the water while Captain Creech was visiting?

5. Why did Mother decide to take Gerald with her to see Margo?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Gerald and Mother go to London? What did they find when they got there?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What did Gerald find in a field an old woman was cultivating? What did Gerald do with his find?

8. 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?

9. When Margo, Mother, Fan and Prue took the dogs with them shopping, what happened?

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

The writer uses dialogue to enhance the characters and often to inject humor into a situation. What are three examples of memorable dialogue in the memoir? Why are they memorable, and why are they important to the memoir?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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