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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 is ironic about the fact that Milton decides to join the Navy instead of the Army?
(a) Desdemona fears for Milton's life because he will be going into war.
(b) His father was a soldier in the Greek Army.
(c) Milton his afraid of boats.
(d) Milton cannot swim.
2. What does Callie do to try to get to know the Obscure Object better?
(a) Callie begins smoking because she knows that the Object is also a smoker.
(b) Callie writes a note to the Object asking her to come over to Middlesex to have dinner.
(c) Callie joins the Drama Club so that she can be in the play with the Object.
(d) Callie agrees to help the girl learn her lines for their class play.
3. What does Lefty do while working on the assembly line at Ford that angers some of the other workers?
(a) He speeds up his work which forces the other workers to have to work more quickly.
(b) He brags about his well-to-do brother in law.
(c) He eats only traditional Greek foods for lunch.
(d) He takes English classes at the Ford language school.
4. Which of the following factors complicates Tessie's relationship with Father Mike?
(a) Father Mike is married to Milton's sister.
(b) They were engaged to be married years ago.
(c) Father Mike is embarrassed he was not promoted to the head priest position in the church.
(d) Tessie does not like Father Mike's wife, Zoe.
5. What happens to Jimmy on Lefty's and his last trip out to the lake?
(a) He is caught by the police for bootlegging.
(b) The Packard breaks through the ice and sinks below the surface with Jimmy inside.
(c) Jimmy crashes the Packard into a telephone pole.
(d) He and Lefty fight and Jimmy is hurt.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the silk Lefty sells in the market not earn much money?
2. Why is Callie given the position of goalie on the field hockey team at her school?
3. Who marries Lefty and Desdemona on the boat?
4. What does Desdemona vow to never do again after Milton's birth?
5. What happens to the Zebra Room in this chapter?
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