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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the snow-white villa, what does Gerry get on intimate terms with?
(a) Mantids.
(b) Squirrels.
(c) Lacewings.
(d) Owls.

2. Why do the Durrells decide to move back to England?
(a) The bank demands their presence.
(b) For Gerry's education.
(c) Because they miss merry ole England.
(d) Great Aunt Hermione died.

3. Who does Gerry walk to the sea with?
(a) Larry.
(b) Theodore.
(c) Old Plop.
(d) A criminal.

4. What is the family preparing for in Part III: Chapter 18, An Entertainment with Animals?
(a) A party.
(b) A birthday.
(c) A going away party.
(d) A circus.

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

6. Whose room do the magpies that Gerry takes from the nest disrupt?
(a) Roger's.
(b) Gerry's.
(c) Larry's.
(d) Margo's.

7. What does Mother name her Dandy Dinmont?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Dinmont.
(c) Dodo.
(d) Dandy.

8. How does Kralefsky end up with two broken ribs?
(a) Fighting with a bull-terrier.
(b) Carrying an overweight lady and then slipping on a wet stone.
(c) Falling down stairs.
(d) Wrestling with Gerry.

9. What is Kralefsky's special interest?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Aquatic life.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Ornithology.

10. What illuminates the family's nighttime picnic at the bay?
(a) Fireflies and phosphorus.
(b) Phosphorus and cigarettes.
(c) Fireflies and lanterns.
(d) Lanterns and a fire.

11. Where does Mother say she wants to be buried?
(a) England.
(b) Lake Ocarina.
(c) Lake Antinoitissa.
(d) Corfu.

12. In Part II: Conversation, where does the family spend most of its time eating, sleeping, reading, and/or arguing?
(a) The garden.
(b) The bay.
(c) The veranda.
(d) The olive groves.

13. What does Gerry say "danced and twisted like wind-blown confetti" in the summer?
(a) Cicadas.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Lacewings.
(d) Olive leaves.

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

15. Instead of catching Old Plop, what does Gerry catch?
(a) The flu.
(b) A big old fish in the bay.
(c) Two water-snakes.
(d) A criminal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What languages do the magenpies learn to speak?

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

3. Under the loose plaster of the crumbing wall, what does Gerry find?

4. When Gerry reaches the nest at the top of the olive tree, what do his dogs below look like?

5. How does winter come to the island of Corfu?

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