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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. Why does Mother dispense of Peter's services?
(a) Because he is rude to Larry.
(b) Because he and Margo are getting too close.
(c) Because his wage is too high for them to pay while in the bigger house.
(d) Because Gerry is not learning anything.

2. Under the loose plaster of the crumbing wall, what does Gerry find?
(a) A black beetle.
(b) Earwigs.
(c) A black scorpion.
(d) A white scorpion.

3. Who does Gerry ask to build him a boat so he can visit the archipelago?
(a) Larry.
(b) Spiro.
(c) Leslie.
(d) Peter.

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

5. What does Kralefsky consider to be "the ticket"?
(a) Women.
(b) Natural history.
(c) Birds.
(d) Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why do the Durrells decide to move back to England?

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

5. Who is Old Plop?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gerry describe the Chessboard Fields?

2. How are Dodo and Margo alike?

3. Gerry's magpies, or magenpies, are from the crow tribe of birds. How do they live up to the crow tribe stereo type in the Durrell family house, especially in Larry's room?

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

5. Why does Larry go snipe hunting?

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

7. What two ways did Peter teach Gerry English?

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

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

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

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