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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author describe the energy crisis and the year-round daylight savings it entailed in Chapter 5?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1976.

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

3. What film does the author describe her parents taking the family to see when it opened in 1974?
(a) Cassablanca.
(b) The Maltese Falcon.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

4. When was Bruce Bechdel born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1936.

5. How does the author describe her father's headstone in Chapter 2?
(a) It is an obelisk.
(b) It is a Catholic cross.
(c) It is a Celtic cross.
(d) It is a star.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author convince her parents to buy her hiking boots during their trip to Europe in her childhood?

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

3. What vision compelled the author in the dream she describes in Chapter 5?

4. The author directly correlates the embellishments of her childhood home to what in Chapter 1?

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

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