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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Octopussy's Garden?
(a) A pornographic movie produced by Bob Preso.
(b) A side show that Bob Presto has created which features three women performing in a see-through tank.
(c) The name of Bob Presto's strip club.
(d) The name of Bob Presto's adult store.

2. How does Jerome react to Callie's abnormal genitals?
(a) He laughs and ridicules her.
(b) He points them out to the Object and Rex.
(c) He does not say anything at the lodge, but later tells Rex and his friends.
(d) He does not notice anything unusual because he is so pleased that he has had sex.

3. What does Callie do to try to get to know the Obscure Object better?
(a) Callie joins the Drama Club so that she can be in the play with the Object.
(b) Callie writes a note to the Object asking her to come over to Middlesex to have dinner.
(c) Callie begins smoking because she knows that the Object is also a smoker.
(d) Callie agrees to help the girl learn her lines for their class play.

4. How does Callie avoid going to the theatre with her parents?
(a) She stays at the clinic with Dr. Luce.
(b) She runs away from the hotel.
(c) She tells them she is too tired.
(d) She tells them she has menstrual cramps.

5. How does Callie's physical development compare to that of the other girls in her sixth grade class?
(a) Callie and the other girls have not reached puberty yet.
(b) Callie and the other girls are both beginning to go through puberty.
(c) Callie is much more developed than the other girls.
(d) Callie is much less developed than the other girls.

6. Which book is the only one that Milton and Tessie complete during their quest to complete the Great Books series?
(a) Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
(b) The Prince by Machiavelli.
(c) The Republic by Plato.
(d) The Complete Works of Socrates.

7. Which of the following is NOT a reason why Callie is concerned about her upcoming appointment with Dr. Bauer?
(a) Callie is concerned that he will be able to tell that she is sexually attracted to girls.
(b) He is a gynecologist and she knows that her genitals are different than other girls'.
(c) The Object tells Callie that the exam is painful.
(d) The Object tells Callie that Dr. Bauer is perverted.

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

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

10. What does Callie attribute the changes in Chapter Eleven to?
(a) His liberal arts education.
(b) His girlfriend, Meg.
(c) The military draft.
(d) Milton's conservative views.

11. 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 does not have her hair in her traditional hair net.
(c) She is still confined to her bed.
(d) She seems to have aged considerably.

12. What does Callie do to convince her mother that she does not need to visit the gynecologist?
(a) She tells her mother about her unusual genitals.
(b) She stuffs her bra with tissues to convince her mother that she has developed breasts.
(c) She pretends to get her first period.
(d) She prays that her mother will cancel the appointment.

13. Why does Tessie take Callie to the Golden Fleece salon?
(a) To have her nails done.
(b) To have a facial.
(c) To have her mustache waxed off.
(d) To get a haircut.

14. Which of the following does NOT occur at the hunting lodge?
(a) Jerome and Callie have sex.
(b) Jerome, Callie, Rex and the Object break into the lodge.
(c) Callie stops the Object from becoming intimately involved with Rex.
(d) Jerome, Callie, Rex and the Object smoke marajuana.

15. What does Chapter Eleven believe gives him the ability to finally beat his father at ping-pong?
(a) Callie's support.
(b) LSD.
(c) Practice.
(d) Meg Zemka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome accuse Callie and the Object of being?

2. Why does Chapter Eleven become interested in current events and politics?

3. What hormone does Callie's body not produce because of her 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason why Tessie and Milton feed their family only traditional Greek foods?

5. Who poses the greatest threat to Cal, Matt and the other Deadheads living in Golden Gate Park?

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