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X: A Fabulous Child's Story Quiz 1

1 Who wrote X: A Fabulous Child's Story?
Jane Austen

Lois Gould

Joyce Carol Oates

Louise Erdrich
2 In what year was the story published?
1998

1972

1955

1981
3 Who is the central character in the story?
X

The Joneses

Y

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

The Joneses

X

Scientists
5 How much does the scientific experiment cost?
23 billion dollars

100 billion dollars

10 million dollars

2 million dollars
6 What do the scientists provide for the Joneses to help them raise X?
a phone number to call

an instruction manual

a list of commandments

a picture of X as a baby
7 What happens when the Joneses refuse to acknowledge X's gender?
They are visited by the police.

They are celebrated by their town.

They forget X's gender altogether.

They lose friends and family.
8 What do the scientists recommend doing about boys clothes and girls clothes?
buying boy clothes

buying girl clothes

buying both

buying neither
9 X wears
baseball caps

pink dresses

flowery underwear

fuzzy socks
10 X also wears
sturdy pants

boxers

long-sleeve shirts

button-up shirts
11 When X tells the little girl at the park not to hit Xes, X's dad
corrects X

laughs

apologizes

hides
12 Why are the Joneses so worried about X going to school?
The teachers do not accommodate X's needs.

The school is very far away.

They do not know any other parents.

The school reinforces the gender binary.
13 Whose bathroom does X use at school?
The girls'

The principal's

The boys'

The teacher's
14 What does X wear to school?
Nothing

A suit

A dress

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

a robot that bakes brownies

a baby doll

an action figure
16 Who are the twins at school?
Linda and Louis

Joe and Peggy

Susie and Bill

Sarah and Marshall
17 Who is the class football player?
Jim

Max

Billy

George
18 Why do the parents dislike X?
Their children are starting to behave like X.

They do not like the Joneses.

X does not have any siblings.

They think X is smarter than their children.
19 What do the parents demand?
X needs to be expelled.

X needs to be moved to a special facility.

X must be a girl.

X needs to be professionally evaluated.
20 Who evaluates X?
A psychiatrist

A scientist

A doctor

The principal
21 What do the other parents fail to see during X's examination?
X's face

the psychiatrist's reaction

an animal in the room

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

confused

crying

yawning
23 The psychiatrist declares that X is
an enigma

mentally unstable

perfectly fine

emotionally stunted
24 After the psychiatrist shares his conclusion, the Other Children
run away

sneer

cry

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

Y

boy

X

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