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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Tessie and Milton react to the ER doctor's diagnosis of Callie?
(a) They believe the doctor has confused her with another patient.
(b) They accept his diagnosis and immediately take Callie to Dr. Luce.
(c) They are shocked and in disbelief.
(d) They distrust the doctor.

2. Who is Carmen?
(a) A pre-op male to female transsexual who works at Bob's club.
(b) A woman who Cal rents a room from.
(c) A woman with Androgen Insensitivity who works at Bob's club.
(d) The announcer for Octopussy's Garden.

3. What is perplexing to Dr. Luce and his colleagues about Callie's condition?
(a) It has been yet to be seen in someone with Turkish ancestry.
(b) She refuses to believe that she is genetically a boy.
(c) She has both male and female genitalia.
(d) It is unusual in someone who has not gone through puberty yet.

4. 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 rejects him because she wants him to go back to living as a girl.
(c) She fully accepts his decision to live as a male.
(d) She ignores him because she is so focused on preparing for Milton's funeral.

5. How does Bob Presto know that Cal/Callie is not a college student?
(a) Cal/Callie does not have a high school diploma.
(b) Cal/Callie does not know what city Stanford is in.
(c) Cal/Callie wants to go to San Francisco instead of Los Angeles.
(d) Cal/Callie takes a job working for Bob Presto.

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

7. Which of the following is NOT a reason why Tessie and Milton feed their family only traditional Greek foods?
(a) Desdemona prefers Greek food.
(b) Greek food is easier to digest than American food.
(c) Mediterranean food has health benefits that help longevity.
(d) Tessie and Milton only know how to cook Greek foods.

8. What is Cal's motivation for attending the Warhol exhibit opening in Berlin?
(a) He must attend in an official capacity as a cultural attache.
(b) He admires Warhol's work.
(c) He likes the Mies van der Rohe building it is being held in.
(d) He hopes to run into Julie Kikuchi there.

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

10. Why do Tessie, Milton and Callie travel to New York City?
(a) To visit the Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Clinic.
(b) For Callie to have abdominal surgery following her tractor injury.
(c) To visit Chapter Eleven at college.
(d) For a relaxing family vacation.

11. What hormone does Callie's body not produce because of her 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?
(a) Androgen.
(b) Dihydrotestosterone.
(c) Estrogen.
(d) Testosterone.

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

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

14. Where do Rex and Jerome take Callie and the Object while they are vacationing?
(a) To a romantic dinner at an expensive restaurant.
(b) To an old hunting lodge in the woods.
(c) To a keg party.
(d) To a farm.

15. How do Callie and the Object react to Jerome's vampire movie shoot in the woods?
(a) They are jealous that Jerome did not ask them to be a part of it.
(b) They are eager to be a part of it and ask Jerome for parts in the movie.
(c) They laugh hysterically while watching it from behind a tree.
(d) They volunteer to hold the camera for Jerome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dr. Luce's specialty?

2. What is Callie's first step in her physical transformation into a boy?

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

4. What synonym for "hermaphrodite" does Callie see in the dictionary that upsets her?

5. What is Callie's initial impression of the Obscure Object?

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