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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Tessie and Milton react to the ER doctor's diagnosis of Callie?
(a) They distrust the doctor.
(b) They believe the doctor has confused her with another patient.
(c) They are shocked and in disbelief.
(d) They accept his diagnosis and immediately take Callie to Dr. Luce.

2. What hormone does Callie's body not produce because of her 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?
(a) Testosterone.
(b) Estrogen.
(c) Dihydrotestosterone.
(d) Androgen.

3. How does Tessie react to Cal when he returns home?
(a) She rejects him because she wants him to go back to living as a girl.
(b) She does not understand his decision to run away and to live as a male, but she is working on accepting it.
(c) She fully accepts his decision to live as a male.
(d) She ignores him because she is so focused on preparing for Milton's funeral.

4. Why does Cal finally call home?
(a) He wants to explain why he ran away to his parents.
(b) He has been arrested while working at Bob's club.
(c) He does not want his parents to worry about him.
(d) He has out of money and needs his parents so send him more.

5. What does Callie notice about herself when she sees herself in the mirror for the first time after having her hair cut?
(a) She now looks like a boy on the outside, but still feels like a girl inside.
(b) She will now be able to date women without suffering public ridicule.
(c) She now looks and feels like a boy.
(d) Even though she has had her hair cut like a boy, she still looks like a girl.

6. What does Cal/Callie say the hardest adjustment is that s/he has to make in choosing to live as a man?
(a) Getting used to using men's bathrooms.
(b) Walking like a man.
(c) Asking women out on dates.
(d) Dressing like a man.

7. Who is Carmen?
(a) A woman who Cal rents a room from.
(b) A pre-op male to female transsexual who works at Bob's club.
(c) The announcer for Octopussy's Garden.
(d) A woman with Androgen Insensitivity who works at Bob's club.

8. What does Desdemona confess to Cal?
(a) She wishes that she and Lefty had never left Turkey.
(b) She and Lefty were brother and sister as well as husband and wife.
(c) She never loved Lefty.
(d) She had secretly been in love with Dr. Philobosian for years.

9. What is Dr. Luce's specialty?
(a) Endocrinology.
(b) Hermaphroditism.
(c) Reproductive medicine.
(d) Sexual disfunction.

10. Why does the Object say she is happy that Callie's family is going on vacation to Turkey?
(a) She does not want her brother, Jerome to seduce Callie.
(b) She is concerned about Callie's romantic advances towards her.
(c) She wants to have a chance to spend more time with Rex.
(d) She feels like her relationship with Callie is becoming too weird.

11. Why is Tessie angry at Milton after his death?
(a) She believes he drove Father Mike to black mail him.
(b) She believes he killed himself.
(c) He was willing to meet and pay the kidnapper and did not tell her about it.
(d) He left her penniless and alone.

12. Where do Rex and Jerome take Callie and the Object while they are vacationing?
(a) To an old hunting lodge in the woods.
(b) To a romantic dinner at an expensive restaurant.
(c) To a keg party.
(d) To a farm.

13. What role is Callie assigned in her English class production of Antigone?
(a) Creon.
(b) Tiresias.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Ismene.

14. How does the Object act towards Callie the morning after the hunting lodge visit?
(a) She is eager to hear details about Callie's night with Jerome.
(b) She does not talk to Callie.
(c) She is eager to tell Callie about her feelings for Rex.
(d) She is angry at Callie for having sex with her brother.

15. What big step do Julie and Cal take in their relationship?
(a) They get married.
(b) They tell their parents that they are dating.
(c) They have sex.
(d) They break up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book is the only one that Milton and Tessie complete during their quest to complete the Great Books series?

2. Who are the Charm Bracelets?

3. What is Cal/Callie's initial impression of Ben Scheer?

4. Where do Callie and the Object spend most of their days in the summer?

5. Why is Ben Scheer so generous towards Cal/Callie?

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