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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. What play do the two couples go to see the night that their babies are conceived?
(a) The Minotaur.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Antigone.
(d) King Lear.

2. Where does Tessie and her family wait out the riots?
(a) At a neighbor's home.
(b) At the Zebra Room.
(c) In Desdemona and Lefty's room in their basement.
(d) In Desdemona and Lefty's room in their attic.

3. Why are realtors reluctant to sell Milton a home in Grosse Pointe?
(a) Because of his loud voice.
(b) Because they do not believe he can afford the mortgage.
(c) Because of the way he dresses.
(d) Because of his Greek background.

4. What is the only article of modern technology does the superstitious and traditional Desdemona embraces?
(a) The automobile.
(b) The television.
(c) The record player (hi-fi).
(d) The vacuum cleaner.

5. Who is the narrator of the story?
(a) Calliope.
(b) Milton.
(c) Tessie.
(d) Desdemona.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Lefty fired from the Ford automobile company?

2. What does Calliope do when she she is baptized?

3. Why does Desdemona visit Dr. Philobosian in this chapter?

4. What does the narrator say makes him/her "the most famous hermaphrodite in history"?

5. What does Lefty do while working on the assembly line at Ford that angers some of the other workers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the events that allow Desdemona and Lefty to depart from Smyrna.

2. Describe Detroit in 1967.

3. Describe Desdemona's appearance.

4. What does Desdemona do when she hears that Milton's Navy unit will be going to war?

5. What is the conflict between Desdemona and Lefty in the chapter "Marriage on Ice"?

6. Describe the village of Bithynios.

7. Describe Sourmelina's appearance when Lefty and Desdemona first arrive in Detroit. What is the significance of the way she looks?

8. Describe the Greek General Hajienestis.

9. Why do the Ford Sociological Department workers visit Lefty's home? What do they find that concerns them?

10. Why is Desdemona fearful about Tessie and Milton's burgeoning romantic relationship?

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