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

2. What is the name given to Gerry's boat?
(a) The Bumtrinket.
(b) The Sea Calf.
(c) The Bootle-Bumtrinket.
(d) The Bootle.

3. What colors are the cyclamen that grow under the olive trees?
(a) White and purple.
(b) Magenta and white.
(c) Red-wine and white.
(d) Magenta and red-wine.

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

5. What does Gerry name the gecko that takes up residence in his bedroom?
(a) Ulysess.
(b) Piddle.
(c) Geronimo.
(d) Dodo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gerry walk to the sea with?

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

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

4. Which two Durrell family members get motion sickness in the boats?

5. Why does Mother dispense of Peter's services?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part II: Conversation, how does Gerry describe the arrival of spring?

2. How did Gerry apply psychology to get his family on board with the idea of him getting a boat for his birthday?

3. Mr. Kralefsky's mother believes flowers can talk and have personality. How does Gerry respond to this idea?

4. What does the introduction of Dodo say about Mother's character?

5. What event causes the eldest Durrell children for once to agree? What do they agree on?

6. The moon did not shine the night of Mother's inaugural swim. What lit up the night in the air and in the water?

7. Why are the Durrells having a party in Part 3?

8. How are Dodo and Margo alike?

9. Why did Gerry's trips to the archipelago in the Sea Cow become less frequent?

10. How does Gerry describe the Chessboard Fields?

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