Middlesex Quizzes

Middlesex Quiz 1

1 What gender does Desdemona predict Cal will be?
Female

She can't make a prediction

Male

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

A silver spoon

Tarot cards

A watch
3 What gender do Tessie and Milton hope their child is?
They don't care

Female

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

Milton finally breaks down her wall by pleading ceaselessly

Desdemona predicts that her next child will be a girl.

Father Mike convinces her that it is the right thing to do.
5 What is Lefty doing when he has his first stroke?
Cracking an egg at Easter

Reading his fortune in his coffee grounds

Praying at church

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

Hashish

Silk cocoons

Grape leaves
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 family doesn't want to leave

He can make a huge profit with the Turks

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?
Athens

Constantinople

Bithynios

Smyrna
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 Bursa

In America

On the boat to America

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

Her silk stockings

Her silver spoon

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

A circle

A grid

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

There is a larger need for doctors in New York

He tries to commit suicide and is institutionalized

He develops an eye condition on the ship
15 Why is Desdemona upset at Ellis Island?
It smells awful

The YWCA cuts off her hair

She doesn't like the crowds of other immigrants

They are quarantined there for a month
16 Where does Lefty first get a job?
The Ford Motor Company

At a deli

With Jimmy Zizmo

On a train
17 What is the name of Lefty's school pageant?
The Assembly Line

Ford English School Melting Pot

The American Dream

The Minotaur
18 Why does Lefty get fired?
Jimmy Zizmo's police record

He can't speak English

He has anarchist leanings

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

He owns a speakeasy

He works at Ford

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

Inbreeding

The Turkish invasion

Favus
21 Why does Jimmy drive Lefty onto the ice?
To threaten him

To escape the police

To run a drug deal

To fight a gang
22 What is Jimmy suspicious of?
Lina is cheating with another bootlegger

Lina is a lesbian

Lina is cheating with Lefty

Lina doesn't love him
23 What is strange about Jimmy's funeral?
Lina refused to attend it

The church wouldn't let them have one

They couldn't find the body

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

He works as a translator

He starts teaching Greek

He goes back to work at Ford
25 Why is Lefty and Desdemona's marriage tense?
She is afraid to sleep with him and get pregnant

Desdemona was in love with Jimmy

Lefty is having affairs with other women

Lina is constantly getting between them

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