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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. How is the Durrell family described on the train back to England?
(a) "A staff of circus goers."
(b) "The Durrells."
(c) "The Durrell Family Circus."
(d) "One traveling circus and staff."

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

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

4. 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 bay.
(d) The veranda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What colors are the cyclamen that grow under the olive trees?

2. How many guest RSVP to Gerry's birthday party?

3. What are the Chessboard Fields named after?

4. Where does Spiro obtain Gerry's goldfish?

5. How does Kralefsky end up with two broken ribs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. The Belgian consul exterminated emaciated cats as a humane act of kindness. What does Gerry think about this?

4. At the end of Part III: Chapter 13, The Snow-White Villa, why does Theodore ponder the idea of having the toads swallow swords?

5. Why does Larry go snipe hunting?

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

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

8. What is Margo's reaction to Peter having to leave the island because they are getting too close?

9. What is the final event, revisited oppositely, that Spiro helps the family with?

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

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