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X: A Fabulous Child's Story Quiz 1

1 Who wrote X: A Fabulous Child's Story?
Louise Erdrich

Lois Gould

Jane Austen

Joyce Carol Oates
2 In what year was the story published?
1955

1981

1972

1998
3 Who is the central character in the story?
Other Children

X

Y

The Joneses
4 Who decides to raise X without a gender?
Scientists

The Joneses

Other Parents

X
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 list of commandments

a phone number to call

a picture of X as a baby

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

They forget X's gender altogether.

They are visited by the police.

They lose friends and family.
8 What do the scientists recommend doing about boys clothes and girls clothes?
buying neither

buying boy clothes

buying both

buying girl clothes
9 X wears
flowery underwear

pink dresses

fuzzy socks

baseball caps
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
hides

apologizes

corrects X

laughs
12 Why are the Joneses so worried about X going to school?
The school reinforces the gender binary.

The school is very far away.

The teachers do not accommodate X's needs.

They do not know any other parents.
13 Whose bathroom does X use at school?
The teacher's

The girls'

The principal's

The boys'
14 What does X wear to school?
Nothing

Checked overalls

A dress

A suit
15 What is X's favorite toy?
a robot that bakes brownies

a toaster

an action figure

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

Joe and Peggy

Linda and Louis

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

Max

Jim

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 professionally evaluated.

X must be a girl.

X needs to be moved to a special facility.
20 Who evaluates X?
A doctor

The principal

A scientist

A psychiatrist
21 What do the other parents fail to see during X's examination?
an animal in the room

X's face

a light

the psychiatrist's reaction
22 When the psychiatrist emerges from the room, he is
crying

yawning

laughing

confused
23 The psychiatrist declares that X is
mentally unstable

an enigma

perfectly fine

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

cry

sneer

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

boy

Y

X

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