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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lefty do while working on the assembly line at Ford that angers some of the other workers?
(a) He eats only traditional Greek foods for lunch.
(b) He takes English classes at the Ford language school.
(c) He speeds up his work which forces the other workers to have to work more quickly.
(d) He brags about his well-to-do brother in law.

3. What does the narrator say his purpose for telling this story?
(a) To convince the reader to accept him.
(b) To explain why he is the way he is.
(c) To record the history of his genetic anomaly.
(d) To share his family history.

4. What does Lefty resolve to do after his visit to the brothel?
(a) Leave Bithynios to immigrate to America.
(b) Tell Desdemona of his feelings for her.
(c) Marry a village girl and start a family.
(d) Attend the local Greek church more often.

5. What religion do the members of Temple No. 1 practice?
(a) No religion. They are a business, not a church.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Greek Orthodox Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of the story?

2. In "Opa!", why is Milton suddenly around the house more than at the diner?

3. What concerns Milton about Lefty's business practices at the Zebra Room?

4. Why does the narrator say that the riots were "the best thing that ever happened to us"?

5. Who does Zoe end up marrying?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sourmelina's appearance when Lefty and Desdemona first arrive in Detroit. What is the significance of the way she looks?

2. Why do Desdemona and Lefty pretend that they do not know each other while aboard the Giulia?

3. Describe Desdemona's silkworm box and its contents.

4. Compare Milton's and Mike Antoniou's views on religion.

5. Describe the narrator in Book 2, Ex Ovo Omina.

6. Why does Lefty visit the town of Bursa so often?

7. What does Milton do to convince the realtor to sell him Middlesex?

8. Describe the Greek General Hajienestis.

9. Describe the events that allow Desdemona and Lefty to depart from Smyrna.

10. Describe Detroit in 1967.

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