Middlesex Quizzes

Middlesex Quiz 1

1 What gender does Desdemona predict Cal will be?
She can't make a prediction

Female

Male

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

A watch

A silver spoon

Tarot cards
3 What gender do Tessie and Milton hope their child is?
Female

They don't care

Male

Intersex
4 What happens to convince Tessie to try to have a girl?
She meets a mysterious little girl at church who charms her with her large vocabulary

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

Desdemona predicts that her next child will be a girl.

Milton finally breaks down her wall by pleading ceaselessly
5 What is Lefty doing when he has his first stroke?
Helping with Cal's birth

Reading his fortune in his coffee grounds

Praying at church

Cracking an egg at Easter
6 What do Desdemona and Lefty sell for a living?
Silk cocoons

Figs

Grape leaves

Hashish
7 What is Lefty's shameful secret when he is young?
He sleeps around with all the girls in the village

He has a gambling addiction

He has a hashish addiction

He is attracted to his sister
8 Why doesn't Dr. Philobosian want to leave Smyrna with Desdemona and Lefty?
His whole family has been killed and he is suicidal

His family doesn't want to leave

He can make a huge profit with the Turks

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

Athens

Bithynios

Constantinople
10 What nationality do Lefty and Desdemona pretend to be to escape?
Turkish

British

French

American
11 Where do Desdemona and Lefty get married?
On the boat to America

In America

In Bursa

In Athens
12 What item serves as an aphrodisiac for Desdemona and Lefty?
Her wedding corset

Her silk stockings

Her hair

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

A circle

A grid

A rectangle
14 Why doesn't Dr. Philobosian come to Detroit at the same time as Desdemona and Lefty?
He is sent back to Greece

He tries to commit suicide and is institutionalized

There is a larger need for doctors in New York

He develops an eye condition on the ship
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?
On a train

The Ford Motor Company

With Jimmy Zizmo

At a deli
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?
His hygiene is too poor

Jimmy Zizmo's police record

He can't speak English

He has anarchist leanings
19 What is Jimmy Zizmo's actual job?
He owns a speakeasy

He is a gambler

He works at Ford

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

Favus

The Turkish invasion

Inbreeding
21 Why does Jimmy drive Lefty onto the ice?
To run a drug deal

To threaten him

To fight a gang

To escape the police
22 What is Jimmy suspicious of?
Lina is a lesbian

Lina doesn't love him

Lina is cheating with another bootlegger

Lina is cheating with Lefty
23 What is strange about Jimmy's funeral?
Lina refused to attend it

No one showed up

The church wouldn't let them have one

They couldn't find the body
24 What does Lefty do to make money?
He starts a speakeasy

He goes back to work at Ford

He starts teaching Greek

He works as a translator
25 Why is Lefty and Desdemona's marriage tense?
Lina is constantly getting between them

She is afraid to sleep with him and get pregnant

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