Middlesex Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Middlesex Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Desdemona hope that Milton will marry?
(a) Gaia Vasilakis.
(b) Zoe Stephanides.
(c) Tessie Zismo.
(d) Julie Kikuchi.

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

3. What does Desdemona do to help make the village girls more attractive to Lefty?
(a) She encourages them to practice personal hygiene.
(b) She gives them sex lessons.
(c) She teaches them how to talk to a man in a seductive way.
(d) She teaches them to look like the girls in a lingerie catalog hidden in her father's dresser.

4. Which of the following adjectives best describes the scenes of Milton in Navy training?
(a) Focused.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Brave.
(d) Comical.

5. What is the fate of the Silk Room at Temple No. 1 when Elijah Muhammed takes over as leader after Fard's arrest.?
(a) It is expanded.
(b) It is relocated to a new building.
(c) It is downsized.
(d) It closes.

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

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

8. What drives Desdemona and Lefty from Bithynios?
(a) The advancing Greek army.
(b) All of their neighbors are leaving and they do not want to be left alone in the village.
(c) The advancing Turkish army.
(d) The strong desire to join their cousin in America.

9. What does Desdemona keep in the silkworm box to predict the sex of a baby?
(a) The rope wedding crowns.
(b) A silver spoon.
(c) A silkworm cocoon.
(d) Her hair braids.

10. What does Desdemona fear will happen to Lefty?
(a) He will never marry and will die alone.
(b) He will become a smoker and alcoholic.
(c) He will marry an unattractive Turkish woman.
(d) He will marry a village girl and will leave Desdemona alone to care for the cocoonery.

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

12. How does Desdemona's prediction of the sex of the baby compare to it's actual sex?
(a) Desdemona predicted the baby would be a girl and it is a girl.
(b) Desdemona predicted the baby would be a boy, but it is born a girl.
(c) Desdemona predicted the baby would be a girl, but it is born a boy.
(d) Desdemona predicted the baby would be a boy and it is a boy.

13. 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 takes English classes at the Ford language school.
(d) He eats only traditional Greek foods for lunch.

14. What shocks Desdemona and Lefty about Sourmelina's husband, Jimmy Zismo?
(a) His religious beliefs.
(b) His dark skin.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His occupation.

15. What does Desdemona do following Lefty's death?
(a) She climbs into her bed and does not leave it for ten years.
(b) She moves to the Southwest with Sourmelina.
(c) She wails and throws herself on his coffin.
(d) She moves from the guest house into the main house at Middlesex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements best describes Uncle Pete?

2. What does Desdemona admire about the women of Temple No.1?

3. What happens to Jimmy on Lefty's and his last trip out to the lake?

4. In the chapter "Tricknology", what does Lefty do to help supplement his income?

5. What medical fact does Dr. Philobosian share with Desdemona that makes her worry about her pregnancy?

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