Middlesex Quizzes

Middlesex Quiz 1

1 What gender does Desdemona predict Cal will be?
Female

She can't make a prediction

Intersex

Male
2 What instrument does Desdemona use to guess Cal's gender?
A stethoscope

A watch

Tarot cards

A silver spoon
3 What gender do Tessie and Milton hope their child is?
Intersex

They don't care

Female

Male
4 What happens to convince Tessie to try to have a girl?
Milton finally breaks down her wall by pleading ceaselessly

Father Mike convinces her that it is the right thing to do.

Desdemona predicts that her next child will be a girl.

She meets a mysterious little girl at church who charms her with her large vocabulary
5 What is Lefty doing when he has his first stroke?
Cracking an egg at Easter

Praying at church

Reading his fortune in his coffee grounds

Helping with Cal's birth
6 What do Desdemona and Lefty sell for a living?
Figs

Hashish

Grape leaves

Silk cocoons
7 What is Lefty's shameful secret when he is young?
He has a hashish addiction

He sleeps around with all the girls in the village

He is attracted to his sister

He has a gambling addiction
8 Why doesn't Dr. Philobosian want to leave Smyrna with Desdemona and Lefty?
He can make a huge profit with the Turks

His family doesn't want to leave

His whole family has been killed and he is suicidal

He is promised a position as Kemal's physician
9 Where does the Turkish massacre of the Greeks and Armenians occur?
Constantinople

Smyrna

Bithynios

Athens
10 What nationality do Lefty and Desdemona pretend to be to escape?
American

French

British

Turkish
11 Where do Desdemona and Lefty get married?
In Athens

On the boat to America

In America

In Bursa
12 What item serves as an aphrodisiac for Desdemona and Lefty?
Her silver spoon

Her wedding corset

Her silk stockings

Her hair
13 What shape was Detroit city planned to be originally?
A wheel

A grid

A rectangle

A circle
14 Why doesn't Dr. Philobosian come to Detroit at the same time as Desdemona and Lefty?
He develops an eye condition on the ship

He is sent back to Greece

He tries to commit suicide and is institutionalized

There is a larger need for doctors in New York
15 Why is Desdemona upset at Ellis Island?
It smells awful

She doesn't like the crowds of other immigrants

They are quarantined there for a month

The YWCA cuts off her hair
16 Where does Lefty first get a job?
With Jimmy Zizmo

On a train

At a deli

The Ford Motor Company
17 What is the name of Lefty's school pageant?
Ford English School Melting Pot

The Minotaur

The American Dream

The Assembly Line
18 Why does Lefty get fired?
He has anarchist leanings

He can't speak English

Jimmy Zizmo's police record

His hygiene is too poor
19 What is Jimmy Zizmo's actual job?
He is a gambler

He works at Ford

He owns a speakeasy

He is a bootlegger
20 What does Dr. Philobosian warn Desdemona and Lina about?
The dangers of miscarriage

The Turkish invasion

Favus

Inbreeding
21 Why does Jimmy drive Lefty onto the ice?
To escape the police

To fight a gang

To run a drug deal

To threaten him
22 What is Jimmy suspicious of?
Lina is cheating with another bootlegger

Lina is cheating with Lefty

Lina is a lesbian

Lina doesn't love him
23 What is strange about Jimmy's funeral?
They couldn't find the body

Lina refused to attend it

The church wouldn't let them have one

No one showed up
24 What does Lefty do to make money?
He starts a speakeasy

He works as a translator

He goes back to work at Ford

He starts teaching Greek
25 Why is Lefty and Desdemona's marriage tense?
She is afraid to sleep with him and get pregnant

Lina is constantly getting between them

Lefty is having affairs with other women

Desdemona was in love with Jimmy

Thanks to a recessive gene passed down by his inbred family, Cal suffers from 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome, a condition that suppresses masculine hormones in the womb, but not at puberty.

Asked by angel z #410223

Answered by jill d #170087 on 9/23/2022 12:30 PM