1. Gerry's great-aunts, Charlotte and Alicia, ask their friend, the Reverend Arthur Trevennor, to take Gerry in while they travel to Madeira for Alicia's health. How many children are in the Trevennor family?
From Quiz A Girl Called Geraldine
Answer:
10
From youngest to oldest, the Trevennor children are Elizabeth (aka Betty), Geoffrey, Sheila, Cecil, twins Bernard and Jill, Larry, Helen (aka Nell), Margaret (aka Peggy) and Paul. Sheila, Jill and Nell are all pupils at St Peter's School, while Peggy has recently left. Charlotte Challenor is a cousin of Reverend Trevennor's father, and she and her sister Alicia have been looking after their great-niece Geraldine after her parents were killed in a tornado (she is named after her father Gerald). Because Geraldine is twelve, Charlotte and Alicia do not want to take her to Madeira with them, but there are no other relatives to take her in, so Charlotte writes to the Reverend to ask him to look after Geraldine while they are away.
The Trevennor children later shorten Geraldine's name to Gerry, hence the title of the book.