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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Object act towards Callie the morning after the hunting lodge visit?
(a) She does not talk to Callie.
(b) She is eager to hear details about Callie's night with Jerome.
(c) She is eager to tell Callie about her feelings for Rex.
(d) She is angry at Callie for having sex with her brother.

2. What surprises Cal most about Desdemona's appearance when he sees her for the first time since returning home?
(a) She has lost weight because of inactivity.
(b) She seems to have aged considerably.
(c) She does not have her hair in her traditional hair net.
(d) She is still confined to her bed.

3. What is Jerome's hobby?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Watching horror movies.
(c) Making horror movies.
(d) Running.

4. Why is Callie given the position of goalie on the field hockey team at her school?
(a) She is the last student to sign up for the team and goalie is the only position left open.
(b) She is uncoordinated so the coach gave her a position where she would not need to move much.
(c) The goalie equipment fits her better than the other girls.
(d) She is agile on her feet and able to block shots made on the goal.

5. Who is Hermaphroditus?
(a) A condition where a person has both male and female sex traits.
(b) The fictionalized half male-half female character that Cal plays for Bob.
(c) A half male-half female Greek god.
(d) The patron saint of hermaphrodites.

6. How does Tessie react to Cal when he returns home?
(a) She ignores him because she is so focused on preparing for Milton's funeral.
(b) She does not understand his decision to run away and to live as a male, but she is working on accepting it.
(c) She rejects him because she wants him to go back to living as a girl.
(d) She fully accepts his decision to live as a male.

7. What do the police detectives tell Tessie and Milton is the best thing for them to do to help find Callie?
(a) Search New York City for Callie.
(b) Call Callie's friends to see if she has gone to see one of them.
(c) Hire a private investigator to find Callie.
(d) Return home to Grosse Pointe to wait for her to call.

8. What does Cal/Callie say the hardest adjustment is that s/he has to make in choosing to live as a man?
(a) Walking like a man.
(b) Dressing like a man.
(c) Getting used to using men's bathrooms.
(d) Asking women out on dates.

9. What is Cal/Callie's initial impression of Ben Scheer?
(a) S/he likes that Ben talks to and treats him/her like a sophisticated adult.
(b) S/he is put off by Ben's intellectual style of speech.
(c) S/he is skeptical of Ben's motives in purchasing him/her dinner and a hotel room.
(d) S/he likes that Ben is willing to purchase alcohol for him/her.

10. How does Milton die?
(a) Milton commits suicide because he believes he will never see Callie again.
(b) Father Mike rams his car into Milton's crushing him.
(c) His car falls off of a bridge and sinks into the river.
(d) Father Mike shoots Milton while he is following him.

11. What course of treatment does Dr. Luce recommend for Callie?
(a) A series of hormone injections and cosmetic surgery to ensure that Callie will be able to bear children.
(b) A series of hormone injections and cosmetic surgery to make Callie look like the boy he identifies himself as
(c) A series of hormone injections and cosmetic surgery to make Callie look like the girl she identifies herself as.
(d) Psychotherapy to help Callie adjust to her hermaphroditism.

12. Who discovers Callie's unusual genitals in this chapter?
(a) Jerome.
(b) The emergency room doctor and nurse.
(c) Dr. Luce.
(d) The Object.

13. What does the Object's father do while driving Callie to the family's summer home in Petoskey?
(a) He asks Callie about her relationship with the Object.
(b) He asks Callie about her family.
(c) He drinks Smirnoff cocktails.
(d) He makes sexual advances towards Callie.

14. Why does Callie hide in the basement bathroom at Baker-Inglis?
(a) She wants to catch up on her English class reading.
(b) She wants to read the gossip about the other girls written on the bathroom walls.
(c) She feels safe and comfortable in this seldom used space.
(d) She likes to look at the crocuses growing outside the window in the bathroom.

15. What does Callie do to try to remove the memory of having sex with Jerome?
(a) She tells Jerome to never come near her again.
(b) She scrubs her body repeatedly during her morning shower.
(c) She decides to pretend like it never happened.
(d) She confesses to the Object hoping that telling her will make her feel better.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ben Scheer so generous towards Cal/Callie?

2. What does Callie notice about herself when she sees herself in the mirror for the first time after having her hair cut?

3. Why do all of the Sunday dinner guests except for Father Mike and Zoe stop coming to Middlesex?

4. What sort of business does Bob Presto own and run?

5. What does Callie attribute the changes in Chapter Eleven to?

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