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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. What does Larry say the family needs in Part I: Prologue, The Migration?
(a) A better doctor.
(b) More money.
(c) Better literature.
(d) Sunshine.

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

3. Where does Mother say she wants to be buried?
(a) Lake Antinoitissa.
(b) Corfu.
(c) England.
(d) Lake Ocarina.

4. Where does Spiro live, and learn English, while in America?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Stillwater.
(d) Boston.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under the loose plaster of the crumbing wall, what does Gerry find?

2. What about the tortoises does Gerry find very interesting?

3. What makes Gerald's wife laugh when reading his manuscript?

4. What names are given to the magpies that Gerry takes from the nest?

5. Where does Geronimo live?

(see the answer key)

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