X: A Fabulous Child’s Story Quizzes

X: A Fabulous Child's Story Quiz 1

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

Joyce Carol Oates

Louise Erdrich

Lois Gould

Jane Austen
2 In what year was the story published?

1972

1998

1955

1981
3 Who is the central character in the story?

X

The Joneses

Other Children

Y
4 Who decides to raise X without a gender?

X

Scientists

Other Parents

The Joneses
5 How much does the scientific experiment cost?

23 billion dollars

10 million dollars

100 billion 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 picture of X as a baby

a list of commandments
7 What happens when the Joneses refuse to acknowledge X's gender?

They are visited by the police.

They forget X's gender altogether.

They are celebrated by their town.

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 neither

buying both
9 X wears

pink dresses

flowery underwear

fuzzy socks

baseball caps
10 X also wears

boxers

button-up shirts

sturdy pants

long-sleeve shirts
11 When X tells the little girl at the park not to hit Xes, X's dad

apologizes

corrects X

hides

laughs
12 Why are the Joneses so worried about X going to school?

The school is very far away.

The teachers do not accommodate X's needs.

The school reinforces the gender binary.

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

The teacher's

The principal's

The boys'

The girls'
14 What does X wear to school?

A dress

A suit

Checked overalls

Nothing
15 What is X's favorite toy?

a robot that bakes brownies

a baby doll

a toaster

an action figure
16 Who are the twins at school?

Joe and Peggy

Linda and Louis

Sarah and Marshall

Susie and Bill
17 Who is the class football player?

Billy

George

Max

Jim
18 Why do the parents dislike X?

Their children are starting to behave like X.

X does not have any siblings.

They think X is smarter than their children.

They do not like the Joneses.
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?

The principal

A scientist

A psychiatrist

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

a light

X's face

an animal in the room

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

yawning

laughing

crying

confused
23 The psychiatrist declares that X is

perfectly fine

mentally unstable

an enigma

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

cheer

run away

cry

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

girl

boy

X

Y

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