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X: A Fabulous Child's Story Quiz 1

1 Who wrote X: A Fabulous Child's Story?
Joyce Carol Oates

Jane Austen

Louise Erdrich

Lois Gould
2 In what year was the story published?
1972

1955

1981

1998
3 Who is the central character in the story?
X

Other Children

The Joneses

Y
4 Who decides to raise X without a gender?
Other Parents

Scientists

X

The Joneses
5 How much does the scientific experiment cost?
10 million dollars

2 million dollars

23 billion dollars

100 billion dollars
6 What do the scientists provide for the Joneses to help them raise X?
a picture of X as a baby

a list of commandments

a phone number to call

an instruction manual
7 What happens when the Joneses refuse to acknowledge X's gender?
They are celebrated by their town.

They lose friends and family.

They forget X's gender altogether.

They are visited by the police.
8 What do the scientists recommend doing about boys clothes and girls clothes?
buying boy clothes

buying neither

buying both

buying girl clothes
9 X wears
pink dresses

baseball caps

fuzzy socks

flowery underwear
10 X also wears
boxers

button-up shirts

long-sleeve shirts

sturdy pants
11 When X tells the little girl at the park not to hit Xes, X's dad
apologizes

laughs

hides

corrects X
12 Why are the Joneses so worried about X going to school?
They do not know any other parents.

The teachers do not accommodate X's needs.

The school reinforces the gender binary.

The school is very far away.
13 Whose bathroom does X use at school?
The principal's

The teacher's

The girls'

The boys'
14 What does X wear to school?
A suit

Nothing

A dress

Checked overalls
15 What is X's favorite toy?
a toaster

a robot that bakes brownies

an action figure

a baby doll
16 Who are the twins at school?
Susie and Bill

Sarah and Marshall

Joe and Peggy

Linda and Louis
17 Who is the class football player?
Max

Billy

Jim

George
18 Why do the parents dislike X?
They do not like the Joneses.

X does not have any siblings.

Their children are starting to behave like X.

They think X is smarter than their children.
19 What do the parents demand?
X must be a girl.

X needs to be professionally evaluated.

X needs to be moved to a special facility.

X needs to be expelled.
20 Who evaluates X?
A scientist

The principal

A doctor

A psychiatrist
21 What do the other parents fail to see during X's examination?
the psychiatrist's reaction

an animal in the room

X's face

a light
22 When the psychiatrist emerges from the room, he is
confused

laughing

yawning

crying
23 The psychiatrist declares that X is
perfectly fine

emotionally stunted

mentally unstable

an enigma
24 After the psychiatrist shares his conclusion, the Other Children
sneer

run away

cry

cheer
25 At the end of the story, X's sibling is a
girl

boy

Y

X

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