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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the author convince her parents to buy her hiking boots during their trip to Europe in her childhood?
(a) Norway.
(b) Italy.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) France.

2. Where is the home where Alison Bechdel grew up?
(a) Beech Creek, PA.
(b) New Hope, PA.
(c) Brigdon, NY.
(d) Mapleton, MA.

3. Who is the 77-year-old poet who is referenced as a lesbian in the panel on page 74?
(a) Marie Antony.
(b) Elsa Gidlow.
(c) Jennifer Roberts.
(d) Christine Roth.

4. 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.

5. The author says in Chapter 3, "Dad was passionate about many writers, but he had a particular reverence for" whom?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe her father rinsing her with in the bathtub as a child in Chapter 1?

2. What month was it when the author finally told her mother that she'd started her period?

3. What was the name of Bruce Bechdel's father?

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

5. What play does the author describe her parents going to see at the Playhouse in Chapter 6?

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