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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Tiresias In Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lefty teach Desdemona to help her pass the English literacy test required for entry into America?
(a) A Bible passage about eunuchs.
(b) English phrases.
(c) Passages from the Greek Bible.
(d) A Bible passage forbidding incest.

3. What commentary on beauty does Julie Kikuchi make in this chapter?
(a) Gender has no bearing on beauty.
(b) Beauty is always freakish.
(c) True beauty comes from inside a person.
(d) Beauty is only skin deep.

4. What causes conflict between Jimmy and Lefty?
(a) Lefty suspects Jimmy of cheating on Sourmelina.
(b) Jimmy suspects that Lefty is actually the father of Sourmelina's baby.
(c) Jimmy believes that Lefty has stolen money from him.
(d) Jimmy drives the Packard too quickly over the lake and frightens Lefty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the English translation of "ex ovo omnia"?

2. Which of the following adjectives best describes the scenes of Milton in Navy training?

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

4. Which of the following factors complicates Tessie's relationship with Father Mike?

5. Where do Desdemona and Lefty move to in this chapter?

(see the answer key)

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