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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of Chapter 3, ""That Old Catastrophe," is an allusion to what poem by Wallace Stevens?
(a) "Sunday Morning."
(b) "A Nail in the Coffin."
(c) "Two Roads Diverged."
(d) "Odysseus."

2. The author describes her childhood home as being built in a brief moment of wealth from the lumber industry in what year?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1911.

3. What is the name of the author's youngest brother?
(a) Christian.
(b) Paul.
(c) John.
(d) Peter.

4. What kind of truck was involved in Bruce Bechdel's death?
(a) A Sunbeam Bread truck.
(b) A Duncan Hines truck.
(c) A Borden Milk truck.
(d) A Getty Gas truck.

5. The author says of her father in Chapter 1, "He used his skillful artifice not to make things, but to make things appear to be" what?
(a) "Beautiful."
(b) "Historical."
(c) "Pristine."
(d) "What they were not."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?

3. What was Helen Bechdel's maiden name?

4. Over what mountains does the author describe her sunrise rising as a child in Chapter 5?

5. How old was the author when her father died?

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