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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Desdemona vow to never do again after Calliope's birth?
(a) Leave her ill husband alone.
(b) Attend church.
(c) Speak to Tessie.
(d) Predict a child's sex.

2. Why does Milton decide to enlist in the Navy?
(a) He wants to escape taking over the Zebra Room as a career.
(b) He is heartbroken when Tessie becomes engaged to Mike Antoniou.
(c) He wants to prove to Tessie that he is a strong, brave man.
(d) He is fiercely patriotic and wants to fight to protect America.

3. Who is Mrs. Watson?
(a) A customer at the Zebra Room.
(b) Milton and Tessie's neighbor.
(c) Lefty's mistress.
(d) Sourmelina's lover.

4. Where do Desdemona and Lefty move to when they arrive in the United States?
(a) New Smyrna.
(b) New York City.
(c) Grosse Pointe.
(d) Detroit.

5. What is ironic about the fact that Milton decides to join the Navy instead of the Army?
(a) Milton cannot swim.
(b) Milton his afraid of boats.
(c) Desdemona fears for Milton's life because he will be going into war.
(d) His father was a soldier in the Greek Army.

6. What happens to the Zebra Room's earnings?
(a) They are stolen when the Zebra Room is burglarized.
(b) The Zebra Room earns little money because it is located in a poor neighborhood.
(c) Lefty loses them by gambling instead of depositing them into the bank.
(d) Milton uses the money to expand the operation by opening a series of hot dog stands.

7. Who is Lefty and Desdemona's sponsor for entry into America?
(a) Their friend, Dr. Philobosian.
(b) Their cousin, Sourmelina.
(c) Captain Kontoulis.
(d) They do not need a sponsor to enter the U.S.

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

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

10. Why is Lefty fired from the Ford automobile company?
(a) His work is sloppy and inaccurate.
(b) He does not pass his English language exam.
(c) He is living with a man who has a criminal record (Jimmy Zismo).
(d) He refuses to wear traditional Greek dress in the Ford English School pageant.

11. How is Lefty able to get he and Desdemona out of the burning city of Smyrna?
(a) He pretends they are French citizens in order to gain passage on a departing boat.
(b) He buys tickets on boat bound for Greece.
(c) He hitchikes from the city into the mountains.
(d) He asks Dr. Philobosian to allow them to hide in his home.

12. Who does Desdemona hope that Tessie will marry?
(a) Milton Stephanides.
(b) Dr. Philobosian.
(c) Gus Vasilakis.
(d) Mike Antoniou.

13. What does Desdemona promise St. Christopher she will do if Milton is spared injury in the war?
(a) She will attend church on a daily basis.
(b) She will send Milton to Bithynios to repair the town's church.
(c) She will donate a large portion of her earnings to the church.
(d) She will confess to her children that she and Lefty are brother and sister.

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

15. Who marries Lefty and Desdemona on the boat?
(a) Captain Kontoulis.
(b) A priest traveling on the Giulia.
(c) No one, they are not married until they reach America.
(d) Dr. Philobosian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lefty resolve to do after his visit to the brothel?

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

3. What does Desdemona attempt to smuggle into the U.S. in her silkworm box?

4. Why are realtors reluctant to sell Milton a home in Grosse Pointe?

5. What is the first luxury Milton purchases with the insurance money?

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