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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 is Corfu?
(a) In the Pacific Ocean.
(b) Off the coast of Athens.
(c) North of Spain.
(d) Off the Albanian and Greek coastlines.

2. What did Gerald name the donkey?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Sally.
(d) Betty.

3. What did Theodore give Gerald for his birthday?
(a) A net and new string.
(b) A collecting box just like Theodore's.
(c) A birthday cake.
(d) A box of glass bottles.

4. From whom did Mother get the donkey she gave to Gerald?
(a) From Katarina.
(b) From Theo.
(c) From the market place.
(d) From Costas.

5. Who was Roger?
(a) The narrator's parrot.
(b) The narrator's dog.
(c) The narrator's brother.
(d) The narrator's pony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gerald announce to his family at their meeting?

2. Where were the myrtle bushes located?

3. How did Gerald find the seahorses?

4. Who were Widdle and Puke?

5. What did Gerald discover about the turtle he found in the waters one day while fishing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Margo and Gerald discover lived on Mouse Island? How did they first discover this person? How did they eventually appease this inhabitant's ire?

2. Who was the first friend the family made upon arriving on the island of Corfu? What important help did this new friend give Gerald and his family?

3. Who was Kokino? What does Kokino mean in Greek? What did Kokino and Gerald do together?

4. What did mother have Costas construct in the yard? How did she explain the construction to Gerald? What was Gerald's mother really having built and why?

5. What did Gerald bring with him for his nighttime fishing expedition? What did he do with his treasures before returning home? What did Taki give Gerald to appease Mother for the late hour of Gerald's return?

6. Who was Sally? Where did Sally come from? How did the name Sally come to be? Why was Gerald excited to have Sally as a member of the household?

7. Where did Gerald go to thank Katarina for giving him Sally? What was happening when Gerald arrived at Katarina's? What did Gerald do?

8. Who is Taki Thanatos? How did Gerald meet him? What did the two share in common? Where did Taki want to take Gerald?

9. Who was Sven? How did he come upon the Durrell family? What was Sven's unusual talent that drove the family crazy? What did Gerald learn Sven had in common with him?

10. What did the family do on Sven's last day at their villa? Who came to visit that day? What did Sven do upon meeting this guest? How does Mother describe Sven as gets into the cab to leave? Why did Larry think her comment was ironic?

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