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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 makes Gerald's wife laugh when reading his manuscript?
(a) His spelling.
(b) The magenpies.
(c) His family.
(d) The "dreadful puns."

2. Where does Gerry settle into and spend his days at the villa?
(a) In the olive groves.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In the grape vines.
(d) In the bay.

3. What does Theodore offer to show Gerry at tea on Thursday?
(a) His collection of scorpion bottles.
(b) His birds.
(c) Microscope slides.
(d) A book about trapdoor spiders.

4. What does George do while waiting for Gerry to solve a math problem?
(a) Practices dancing and fencing moves.
(b) Hums the tune to Jeopardy.
(c) Taps his pencil on the table.
(d) Sits silently and waits patiently.

5. What illness does Margo suffer from in the English weather?
(a) Acne.
(b) Flu.
(c) None.
(d) Catarrh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Margo and the Turkish boy on their date?

2. What does Theodore tell Gerry made the trapdoors?

3. Who teaches Gerry some of the most beautiful and haunting peasant songs?

4. After their swim in Chapter 5, where do Gerry and Roger go for a snack?

5. What does Larry say his mother is starting to look like in Part I: Prologue, The Migration?

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