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Gerald Durrell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 140 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

My Family and Other Animals Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Gerald Durrell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 140 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are in the two cases the customs officials are holding of the Durrells?
(a) Bed linens.
(b) Mother's recipe books.
(c) Leslie's gun books.
(d) Spices.

2. What does Larry liken the Durrell family's entry to?
(a) A traveling circus of medieval tumblers.
(b) A traveling circus.
(c) Gracious majesty of English nobels.
(d) A troupe of medieval tumblers.

3. When Larry goes to light a cigarette, what flies out of the box?
(a) A fire-fly.
(b) A mantis.
(c) A bumble-bee.
(d) A grashopper.

4. Where does Theodore suggest they go in the spring to explore ditches?
(a) Val de Ropa.
(b) The strawberry-pink villa.
(c) His backyard.
(d) The Corfu bay.

5. Who names Gerry's pigeon?
(a) Quasimodo.
(b) Margo.
(c) Larry.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species of cyclops are found on Corfu?

2. What special day is it when Spiro drives Gerry, Mother, and Margo to town to buy furniture?

3. How does George go about teaching Gerry mathematics?

4. What does George find helpful in teaching Gerry?

5. Where does Spiro live, and learn English, while in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Thursday tea with Theodore an appointment Gerry would not have missed for anything?

2. How does Gerry describe his first glimpse and sounds of Corfu and its waters?

3. How did Gerry and Mother's opinions regarding the pace for eating breakfast differ?

4. How did Larry attempt to help his family regain their pose, after it was shattered by Roger and the pack of dogs?

5. What does it say about Larry's character that he has invited friends to stay at the villa when there is not enough room, and he does not tell Mother until they are almost there?

6. What bonding event do Gerry and Leslie share? Why do you think this is appealing to Gerry?

7. How does Gerry describe the Daffodil-Yellow Villa?

8. How does the Durrell family breakfast play out?

9. Gerry ponders what insect movements, on top of the trapdoor, must sound like to a trapdoor spider. What were some of his ideas?

10. Why was Yani one of the people Gerry liked best?

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