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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author claim was her father's passion but not his job in Chapter 1?
(a) Clothing design.
(b) Historical restoration.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Drinking Scotch.

2. What did Bruce Bechdel teach?
(a) Drama.
(b) Biology.
(c) English.
(d) Calculus.

3. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Marcel Proust.

4. The author compares her aesthetic to her father's in Chapter 1, saying that she was Spartan to her father's what?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Egalitarian.
(c) Athenian.
(d) Victorian.

5. Who is the "smooth-talking fortune hunter" in The Heiress that the author describes in Chapter 3?
(a) Morris Townsend.
(b) James Waldrop.
(c) William James.
(d) Edgar Spency.

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter 3, ""That Old Catastrophe," is an allusion to what poem by Wallace Stevens?

2. What novel is the play The Heiress based on?

3. Where did the author's mother study acting?

4. Who is the 77-year-old poet who is referenced as a lesbian in the panel on page 74?

5. What is the name of Alison Bechdel's mother?

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