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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapter 6, The Sweet Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Larry say his mother is starting to look like in Part I: Prologue, The Migration?
(a) An Irish washerwoman.
(b) A widow.
(c) A ray of sunshine in the gloomy climate.
(d) A plate of scarlet porridge.

2. One day Mother and Gerry buy the Rose-Beetle Man's entire stock of rose-beetles, what do they do with them?
(a) Release them into the garden.
(b) Tie them to the lamps in the house.
(c) Feed them to the frogs.
(d) Tie them to their hats.

3. How old is Gerry when the family moves to Corfu?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Five.

4. How do Gerry and George win points in their game in the bay?
(a) By applying mathematic applications to the sea fauna.
(b) By discovering the most sea fauna.
(c) By squirting the sea-slug the farthest.
(d) By finding the most sea-slugs.

5. Gerald's mother receives a shipment of two pelicans, a scarlet ibis, a vulture, and eight monkeys. Which one gives her trouble?
(a) The vulture.
(b) The scarlet ibis.
(c) One of the pelicans.
(d) One of the monkeys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Yani never sleep in the hills?

2. Who is the goat shepherd who tells Gerry the tale of the cypress tree?

3. What illness does Leslie suffer from in the English weather?

4. Who does Gerald dedicate this book to?

5. What is the first item the Rose-Beetle Man sells Gerry?

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