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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Looking Myself Up in Webster's.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about Callie's and Clementine's soak in the Middlesex hot tub?
(a) The girls discover their interest in water ballet.
(b) Callie injures Clementine.
(c) Callie discovers she is sexually attracted to girls.
(d) Lefty spies on the girls while they are in the hot tub.

2. How does Lefty communicate with Calliope?
(a) By making faces.
(b) By speaking.
(c) Using sign language.
(d) By writing on his chalkboard.

3. How does Callie avoid going to the theatre with her parents?
(a) She tells them she is too tired.
(b) She tells them she has menstrual cramps.
(c) She runs away from the hotel.
(d) She stays at the clinic with Dr. Luce.

4. In "Opa!", why is Milton suddenly around the house more than at the diner?
(a) The bank has foreclosed on the diner.
(b) Milton has sold the Zebra Room to a new owner.
(c) Milton wants to help care for his father, Lefty, after his stroke.
(d) Business is bad so Milton closes the restaurant several days a week.

5. What is the English translation of "ex ovo omnia"?
(a) Every child begins as an egg.
(b) Everything comes out of an egg.
(c) Everything exits an egg.
(d) Everything is an egg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medical condition does Dr. Philobosian diagnose Desdemona with?

2. What reason does Lefty give Desdemona for his trip into town?

3. Why does Jimmy Fioretos call to wake Milton early one morning?

4. How does Desdemona's prediction of the sex of the baby compare to it's actual sex?

5. What does Desdemona's mother say is critical for encourage silk worms to produce good silk?

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