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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapter 4, A Bushel of Learning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gerald say living on Corfu is like?
(a) Like living in a dream.
(b) Like living with the three stooges.
(c) Like living in the Garden of Eden.
(d) Like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas.

2. How does Gerry describe his mother at the beginning of Part I: Chapter 1, The Unsuspected Isle?
(a) "Like a prim and proper English woman, dressed for tea."
(b) "Like a Greek godess, trailing muslin and scent."
(c) "Like a tiny, harassed missionary in an uprising."
(d) "Like a weary traveler, no worse for the wear."

3. What are in the two cases the customs officials are holding of the Durrells?
(a) Mother's recipe books.
(b) Bed linens.
(c) Leslie's gun books.
(d) Spices.

4. What do the olive groves echo with?
(a) Flutes.
(b) Cicadas.
(c) Goldfinches.
(d) Lizards.

5. Who is the most weird and fascinating character Gerry meets on his explorations?
(a) George.
(b) Yani.
(c) Theodore.
(d) The Rose-Beetle Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. While still on the boat, approaching Corfu, what does Gerry hear?

2. How do Gerry and George win points in their game in the bay?

3. Why can Gerry hear the Rose-Beetle Man before he sees him?

4. Aside from being Greek and adoring bargaining, why does Spiro haggle so over prices for the Durrells?

5. Gerald's mother receives a shipment of two pelicans, a scarlet ibis, a vulture, and eight monkeys. Which one gives her trouble?

(see the answer key)

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