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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 12, The Woodcock Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gerry describe the Corfu winter?
(a) Warm and dry.
(b) Cold and wet.
(c) Cold and dry.
(d) Warm and wet.

2. What does George teach Gerry about natural history?
(a) How to not frighten the big tortoise.
(b) How to observe and write notes in a diary.
(c) How to apply mathematics to natural history.
(d) The mating cycle of the earwig.

3. What kind of people does Mother not like?
(a) Lowbrow ones.
(b) Highbrow ones.
(c) Stagnate ones.
(d) Turks.

4. Who goes turtledove hunting with Leslie?
(a) Gerry.
(b) Larry.
(c) Spiro.
(d) The Turkish boy.

5. Where does the Durrell family stay their first night on Corfu?
(a) Spiro's home.
(b) La Masion.
(c) Pension Suisse.
(d) The strawberry-pink villa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of books are on Mother's bedside table?

2. Aside from being Greek and adoring bargaining, why does Spiro haggle so over prices for the Durrells?

3. What does Gerry say "danced and twisted like wind-blown confetti" in the summer?

4. What does Theodore send Gerry to assist him in his field work?

5. What does Spiro not like about the man that Margo goes swimming with?

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