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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 17, The Chessboard Fields.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While squirrel hunting, what does Gerry find instead?
(a) A baby bat.
(b) A baby owl.
(c) A baby racoon.
(d) A large tortoise.

2. In Part II: Conversation, where does the family spend most of its time eating, sleeping, reading, and/or arguing?
(a) The garden.
(b) The veranda.
(c) The olive groves.
(d) The bay.

3. Where does Geronimo live?
(a) In the zinna bed.
(b) With Spiro.
(c) In the snow-white villa.
(d) In Mother's room.

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

5. In the beginning of Part I: Conversation, what does Larry do that upsets Mother?
(a) Invites all his friends to visit and stay at Pension Suisse.
(b) Tells Leslie, Margo, Gerry, and Mother they will have to sleep outside while his friends are here.
(c) Invites all his friends to visit and sleep on the veranda.
(d) Invites all his friends to come and stay with them on the island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Gerry hear the Rose-Beetle Man before he sees him?

2. Who does the family decide will teach Gerry?

3. What does the crumbling wall that surrounded the sunken garden provide Gerry?

4. How does George introduce Theodore to Gerry?

5. What is the one thing that Roger, Widdle, and Puke find interesting about Dodo?

(see the answer key)

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