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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose room do the magpies that Gerry takes from the nest disrupt?
(a) Gerry's.
(b) Margo's.
(c) Roger's.
(d) Larry's.

3. When Spiro brings the mail, what does the bulk of Margo's mail consist of?
(a) Dieting magazines.
(b) Romance novels.
(c) Fashion magazines.
(d) Gun catalogues.

4. Why does Gerry go to the sea in Part 3, Chapter 17?
(a) To wash and fish.
(b) To wash and get a bird.
(c) To wash and eat cockles.
(d) To eat fish and cockles.

5. At the end of Part II: Conversation, what proverb does Margo share about change?
(a) Change is necessary.
(b) Change is always painful at first, but then rewarding as a blue ribbon.
(c) Change is always present in our lives.
(d) Change is as good as a feast.

6. What gives Spiro a weak stomach?
(a) Toads.
(b) Stews.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Riding in the Sea Cow.

7. Aside from the sirocco, what impedes Margo's return from the island where she seeks solitude?
(a) The Sea Cow.
(b) Her puffy sunburned eyelids.
(c) Peter.
(d) The dogs barking.

8. What names are given to the magpies that Gerry takes from the nest?
(a) Achilles and Ulysses.
(b) Magenpies.
(c) Dee and Dum.
(d) Widdle and Puke.

9. How does Kralefsky teach Gerry the French language?
(a) With a set of bird books.
(b) With a set of zoology books.
(c) By repetition and drills.
(d) By walking around town and naming things.

10. When returning to the villa with his horn blaring, what does Spiro have with him for the party?
(a) Three cooked turkeys.
(b) Larry's manuscript from the publisher.
(c) The doctor for Kralefsky.
(d) The Greek King.

11. What does Gerry say "danced and twisted like wind-blown confetti" in the summer?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Lacewings.
(c) Olive leaves.
(d) Cicadas.

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

13. What does the crumbling wall that surrounded the sunken garden provide Gerry?
(a) Something to spackle.
(b) An imaginary world of make-believe.
(c) A rich hunting ground.
(d) A great view of the Tortoise Hills.

14. In Part II: Chapter 10, Pageant of the Fireflies, who tutors Gerry in the summer?
(a) Peter.
(b) George.
(c) Larry.
(d) Ulysses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gerry walk to the sea with?

2. How is the Durrell family described on the train back to England?

3. What riveting news does Mother receive in a letter from Great Aunt Hermione?

4. What does Larry find in the matchbox when he wants to light his cigarette?

5. What event occurs at the end of Part II: Chapter 12, the Woodcock Winter that causes the family great distress?

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