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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 is the "maze" that Jimmy tells Lefty women should be "shut up in"?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Pregnancy.
(c) Prison.
(d) House work.

2. What happens to the Zebra Room in this chapter?
(a) Lefty relocates and expands the business.
(b) Lefty is forced to close the business because of Desdemona's disapproval.
(c) Lefty is forced to close the business because it is no longer profitable.
(d) Lefty sells the Zebra Room to a new owner.

3. What is unique about Calliope's fifth chromosome?
(a) It's structure causes her to have a birth defect.
(b) It impairs her brain development.
(c) It produces an enzyme that prevents her from producing a certain hormone.
(d) It leads her to be a large baby.

4. What is the cause of Desdemona's heart palpitations?
(a) A rare genetic disorder.
(b) Grief over the deaths of her parents.
(c) Stress over the Greek occupation of Turkey.
(d) Unproductive silkworms.

5. What does the narrator say makes him/her "the most famous hermaphrodite in history"?
(a) S/he has the brain of a boy, but was raised as a girl.
(b) S/he went to the doctor to have a sex change operation.
(c) S/he lived as a girl but had the body of a boy.
(d) S/he was studied by Dr. Luce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lefty's actual motivation for going into town?

2. Why do Lefty and Desdemona know that they can trust Sourmelina to keep the secret that they are siblings?

3. In "Opa!", why is Milton suddenly around the house more than at the diner?

4. What helps narrator feel more masculine?

5. What does the narrator say his purpose for telling this story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Lefty visit the town of Bursa so often?

3. Why do Desdemona and Lefty pretend that they do not know each other while aboard the Giulia?

4. Describe Fard Muhammad's beliefs about the evolution of race.

5. Describe Detroit in 1967.

6. Describe the narrator in Book 2, Ex Ovo Omina.

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

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

9. Compare Milton's and Mike Antoniou's views on religion.

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

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