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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was F. Scott Fitzgerald when he died?
(a) 35.
(b) 51.
(c) 44.
(d) 49.

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

3. What does the word "qualmish" mean in Chapter 3?
(a) Nauseated.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Worried.
(d) Insistent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Alison Bechdel's parents purchase their home?

2. Who is the author of The Well of Loneliness?

3. From what children's book does the author's father's read to her in the bedtime panel in Chapter 1?

4. Of what material was Bruce Bechtel's tombstone made?

5. How did the author's father die?

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