2. What are the Chessboard Fields named after?
(a) Fields sprawling with small square crops.
(b) A field where the peasants play chess every Sunday.
(c) Fields sprawling with flowers in a chessboard pattern.
(d) Mr. Chessboard, a Englishman who once lived on Corfu.

3. What event gets Margo out of the attic?
(a) Gerry pleading with her.
(b) Leslie's burglar trap going off.
(c) Mother's delicious meals.
(d) Peter returning for her.

4. When Gerry reaches the nest at the top of the olive tree, what do his dogs below look like?
(a) The size of ants.
(b) As small as a toad.
(c) They look like their regular size.
(d) The size of pimpernel flowers.

5. What is Kralefsky's special interest?
(a) Aquatic life.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Ornithology.

6. How does winter come to the island of Corfu?
(a) Fiercely.
(b) Slowly and steadily.
(c) Gently.
(d) With a howl and a shriek.

7. What is the one thing that Roger, Widdle, and Puke find interesting about Dodo?
(a) She comes into season regularly.
(b) She can catch her tail.
(c) She can jump high.
(d) She can sneak treats for them.

8. Why is Leslie's bath impeded in Part 3, Chapter 18?
(a) He has to help save Dodo from the angry dogs.
(b) Gerry has his water-snakes in the bath.
(c) The water is shut off.
(d) Margo had used all the towels.

9. Which two Durrell family members get motion sickness in the boats?
(a) Theodore and Puke.
(b) Puke and Peter.
(c) Mother and Dodo.
(d) Theodore and Dodo.

10. Who is Old Plop?
(a) A large and ancient terrapin.
(b) An old Greecian peasant man who makes a plopping noise when he sits.
(c) A big old fish in the bay.
(d) A criminal.

11. What does Kralefsky consider to be "the ticket"?
(a) Women.
(b) Natural history.
(c) Birds.
(d) Friendship.

12. What event occurs at the end of Part II: Chapter 12, the Woodcock Winter that causes the family great distress?
(a) A fire in the house.
(b) Gerry's scorpion's babies get out of the matchboxes.
(c) Leslie's burglar alarm.
(d) The magenpies get out.

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

14. What languages do the magenpies learn to speak?
(a) French and Greek.
(b) English and Spanish.
(c) Greek and English.
(d) French and English.

15. Why do Gerry and Kralefsky go to the top of his house?
(a) To feed the birds.
(b) To give the birds water.
(c) To see which way the wind was blowing.
(d) To feel the warm sunshine.