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

2. What does Larry find in the matchbox when he wants to light his cigarette?
(a) Baby scorpions.
(b) A female scorpion and her babies.
(c) A female scorpion.
(d) An earwig.

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

4. In the summer, what makes the island vibrate with their cries?
(a) Earwigs.
(b) Peasant women.
(c) Lacewings.
(d) Cicadas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Theodore's friend's house when another floor is added?

2. How does the family feel about Great Aunt Hermione?

3. What uncharacteristic thing does Larry do in Part II: Chapter 12, the Woodcock Winter?

4. Who does Gerry walk to the sea with?

5. What does Kralefsky's mother think about flowers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What battle between a gecko and mantis takes place in Gerry's room? What is the outcome?

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

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

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

6. How are Dodo and Margo alike?

7. How does Gerry describe the Chessboard Fields?

8. Why was Gerry initially suspicious when his family told him his new tutor, Mr. Kralefsky, was interested in birds?

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

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

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