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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession did Bruce Bechdel have other than being a teacher?
(a) He was a butcher.
(b) He was a professional musician.
(c) He was a banker.
(d) He was a funeral director.

2. Who created the illustrations for The Wind in the Willows coloring book that the author describes in Chapter 5?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) E. H. Shepard.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) Gilbet Osmond.

3. What author does Bechdel recall reading regarding her obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was a child?
(a) E. H. Shepard.
(b) Morris Townsend.
(c) Dr. Spock.
(d) Radclyffe Hall.

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

5. In what role was the author's mother performing in the play when she met her husband?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Lady Bracknell.
(c) Katherina.
(d) Miss Malaprop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim was her father's passion but not his job in Chapter 1?

2. In one of the illustrated panels in Chapter 1, the author says, "When I grow up, my house is going to be all metal, like" what?

3. Who wrote the play The American Dream that the author's mother is seen reading in a panel in Chapter 5?

4. What color did the author's father fill in the gypsy caravan with in the coloring book in Chapter 5?

5. What word from Chapter 5 means resembling sunlight?

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